Bill Text: NY S04534 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Directs municipalities and school districts to consider whether a prospective bidder is a veteran owned business when establishing its list of pre-qualified bidders; directs the director of the division of veterans' affairs to determine applications for designation of a business as a veteran owned business.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-12 - PRINT NUMBER 4534A [S04534 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S04534-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4534--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 26, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi- ty and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the executive law, in relation to including the consideration of whether prospective bidders are veteran owned businesses when a municipality or school district establishes its list of pre-qualified bidders The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 15 of section 103 of the 2 general municipal law, as added by section 1-a of part MM of chapter 57 3 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Notwithstanding any general, special or local law or rule or regu- 5 lation to the contrary, an officer, board or agency of any county, any 6 school district or any political subdivision of the state with a popu- 7 lation of fifty thousand or more charged with awarding a contract for 8 public work may establish guidelines governing the qualifications of 9 bidders seeking to bid or enter into such contracts. If such officer, 10 board or agency maintains an appropriate list of qualified bidders, the 11 bidding shall be restricted to those who have qualified prior to the 12 receipt of bids according to standards fixed by such officer, board or 13 agency. In determining whether a prospective bidder qualifies for inclu- 14 sion on a list of pre-qualified bidders, the officer, board or agency 15 shall consider the experience and record of performance of the prospec- 16 tive bidder in the particular type of work, as well as: (i) the prospec- 17 tive bidder's ability to undertake the particular type and complexity of 18 work; (ii) the financial capability, responsibility and reliability of 19 the prospective bidder for such type and complexity of work; (iii) the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09403-02-6
