Provides that a county, city, town, village, school district or public benefit corporation performing services that benefit citizens may purchase recycled remanufactured commodities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7862
IN SENATE
May 18, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. STACHOWSKI -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to expanding entities
that may purchase recycled or remanufactured commodities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 163 of the state finance law, as
2 amended by section 3 of part D of chapter 56 of the laws of 2006, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 6. Discretionary buying thresholds. Pursuant to guidelines established
5 by the state procurement council: the commissioner may purchase services
6 and commodities in an amount not exceeding eighty-five thousand dollars
7 without a formal competitive process; state agencies may purchase
8 services and commodities in an amount not exceeding fifty thousand
9 dollars without a formal competitive process; and state agencies may
10 purchase commodities or services from small business concerns or those
11 certified pursuant to article fifteen-A of the executive law, or commod-
12 ities or technology that are recycled or remanufactured, in an amount
13 not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars without a formal competitive
14 process; and a county, city, town, village, school district or a public
15 benefit corporation performing or financing services intended to benefit
16 the health of citizens may purchase commodities that are recycled or
17 remanufactured, in an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars with-
18 out a formal competitive process.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
20 have become a law, provided, however that any rules and regulations
21 necessary for the timely implementation of this act on its effective
22 date shall be promulgated on or before such date; provided, further that
23 the amendments to section 163 of the state finance law made by section
24 one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
25 deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08435-01-9
