Bill Text: NY S05114 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the approval of certain public authority contracts by the state comptroller.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-12 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S05114 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S05114-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5114
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 10, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Author-
         ities and Commissions
       AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the  approval
         of certain public authorities contracts by the state comptroller
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2879-a of the  public  authorities
    2  law,  as added by chapter 506 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    1. Except as set forth in subdivision three of this section, where the
    5  comptroller determines pursuant to his or her authority to supervise the
    6  accounts  of  public  corporations,  that  contracts  or  categories  of
    7  contracts  in  excess  of  one  million dollars [(a)] to be awarded by a
    8  state authority [to a single source, a sole source or  pursuant  to  any
    9  other method of procurement that is not competitive, or (b) which are to
   10  be  paid  in whole or in part from monies appropriated by the state to a
   11  state authority for such contractual expenditure,]  require  supervision
   12  in  the  form  of  prior  review and approval of such contracts, and the
   13  comptroller so notifies such authority of such determination,  then  any
   14  such  contract  entered  into  subsequent  to such notification shall be
   15  submitted to the comptroller for his or her approval and shall not be  a
   16  valid  enforceable  contract unless it shall first have been approved by
   17  the comptroller.  Such  notification  shall  identify  the  process  for
   18  submission, the categories of contracts at issue and the time period for
   19  which such submission is to take place. The comptroller shall promulgate
   20  such  rules  and regulations as may be necessary to carry out his or her
   21  responsibilities under this section, including but not  limited  to  the
   22  standards  for determining which contracts will be subject to his or her
   23  review and for approving such contracts.
   24    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   25  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03601-01-3
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