Bill Text: NY S05737 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that notice for contracts for publication of official court reports shall be provided in the procurement opportunities newsletter.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-13 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6955 [S05737 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05737-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5737
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 27, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sen. BONACIC -- (at request of the Office of Court Admin-
          istration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed  to  be
          committed to the Committee on Judiciary
        AN  ACT  to amend the judiciary law, in relation to publication of offi-
          cial reports
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 and 4 of section 434 of the judiciary law, as
     2  amended  by  chapter  218  of  the  laws of 1985, are amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. In each year immediately preceding the expiration of  the  contract
     5  to  be let as hereinafter provided, the state reporter shall give notice
     6  that a contract will be let for said printing and publication,  together
     7  with a reference to this section, and that on or before the first day of
     8  [September]  April  in  such  year, [he] the state reporter will receive
     9  sealed proposals for such contract.  Such  notice  shall  be  given  [by
    10  publication  thereof  once  in each of the first weeks of June, July and
    11  August, respectively, in a newspaper  to  be  designated  by  the  state
    12  reporter,  published  in each of the following cities, namely: New York,
    13  Albany, Rochester and Buffalo; such newspapers to be  so  designated  as
    14  shall  be  most likely to give notice to the public of such letting; the
    15  expense of such publication to be paid by the state treasurer  from  the
    16  general  funds  of the state, after the same shall have been approved in
    17  writing by the state reporter and audited according to law] beginning in
    18  the first week of January in the  procurement  opportunities  newsletter
    19  published  by  the  commissioner  of  economic  development  pursuant to
    20  section one hundred forty-two of the economic development law.
    21    4. Said contract shall be let to the person who will publish and  sell
    22  said reports and said combined official series, together with the weekly
    23  advance  sheets  thereof, and furnish the required copies to the various
    24  state and county officials, on terms deemed by said state reporter  most
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09077-02-7
        S. 5737                             2
     1  advantageous to the public and the state, regard being had to the proper
     2  execution  of  the work. Said contract shall be let not earlier than the
     3  [sixteenth] first of [October] May, nor later than the first of  [Novem-
     4  ber] June, in such years.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.