Requires that when the state is purchasing commodities and such commodities are available and purchased from approved charitable non-profit-making agencies for the blind, the preferred source shall perform fifty percent or more of the work.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing a
threshold for the amount of work needed to be performed by a preferred
source which is an approved charitable non-profit-making agency for
the blind; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expi-
ration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of
2 section 162 of the state finance law, as added by chapter 83 of the laws
3 of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
4 (ii) When commodities are available, in the form, function and utility
5 required by, a state agency or political subdivision or public benefit
6 corporation having their own purchasing agency, and such commodities are
7 not available pursuant to subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, said
8 commodities shall then be purchased from approved charitable non-pro-
9 fit-making agencies for the blind, provided, however, the preferred
10 source shall perform fifty percent or more of the work;
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
12 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending the state finance law
13 relating to preferred source status for entities that provide employment
14 to certain persons, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7578-C
15 and A. 8549-C, takes effect, and shall expire and be deemed repealed
16 three years after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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