Bill Text: NY S03336 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-27 - REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS [S03336 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S03336-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3336 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 27, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COONEY, HELMING, ROLISON, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to contracts for school food services; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 103 of the general municipal law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows: 3 17. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, in the case of 4 contracts for goods, services, or management in the operation of a 5 school's food service, a board of education, on behalf of its school 6 district, or a board of cooperative educational services, shall have the 7 authority to award such contracts on the basis of certain scoring crite- 8 ria specifically set forth in the solicitation documents determined by 9 the procurement office or school board to be essential to the provision 10 of a safe and nutritious food service program with price being the 11 primary factor and most heavily weighted but not the determinative 12 factor. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 14 deemed repealed five years after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03265-01-5
