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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7582
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 19, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE, PEOPLES-STOKES -- (at request of the
          Office of General Services) -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
 
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to deposits on  plans
          and specifications for contracts for public works
 
          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 143 of the state finance  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  43  of  the  laws  of  1969, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  any  general  or
     5  special law, the board, division, department, bureau, agency, officer or
     6  commission  of  the  state  charged with the duty of preparing plans and
     7  specifications for and awarding  or  entering  into  contracts  for  the
     8  performance  of  public  work [shall] may require the payment of a fixed
     9  sum of money, not exceeding one hundred dollars, for each copy  of  such
    10  plans  and  specifications,  by  persons or corporations desiring a copy
    11  thereof. Any person or corporation desiring a copy  of  such  plans  and
    12  specifications  and making the deposit required by this section shall be
    13  furnished with one copy of the plans and specifications.   Notwithstand-
    14  ing  the  foregoing,  where  payment is required it shall be waived upon
    15  request by minority-  and  women-owned  business  enterprises  certified
    16  pursuant  to  article fifteen-A of the executive law or by service-disa-
    17  bled veteran-owned business enterprises certified  pursuant  to  article
    18  seventeen-B  of  the executive law. Such payment may also be waived when
    19  such plans and specifications are made available and obtained  electron-
    20  ically  or  in  any non-paper form from the board, division, department,
    21  bureau, agency, officer or commission of the state.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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