STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3475 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 23, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to discretionary buying thresholds The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 163 of the state finance law, as 2 amended by chapter 569 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 6. Discretionary buying thresholds. Pursuant to guidelines established 5 by the state procurement council: the commissioner may purchase services 6 and commodities in an amount not exceeding eighty-five thousand dollars 7 without a formal competitive process; state agencies may purchase 8 services and commodities in an amount not exceeding fifty thousand 9 dollars without a formal competitive process; and state agencies may 10 purchase commodities or services from small business concerns or those 11 certified pursuant to articles fifteen-A and seventeen-B of the execu- 12 tive law, from preferred source providers pursuant to section one 13 hundred sixty-two of this article, or commodities or technology that are 14 recycled or remanufactured, or commodities that are food, including milk 15 and milk products, grown, produced or harvested in New York state in an 16 amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars without a formal 17 competitive process. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend- 19 ments to section 163 of the state finance law, made by section one of 20 this act, shall not affect the expiration and repeal of such section, 21 and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03797-01-7