STATE OF NEW YORK
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714
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, HYNDMAN, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities 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] such comptroller's
6 authority to supervise the accounts of public corporations, that
7 contracts or categories of contracts in excess of one million dollars
8 [(a)] to be awarded by a state authority [to a single source, a sole
9 source or pursuant to any other method of procurement that is not
10 competitive, or (b) which are to be paid in whole or in part from monies
11 appropriated by the state to a state authority for such contractual
12 expenditure], require supervision in the form of prior review and
13 approval of such contracts, and the comptroller so notifies such author-
14 ity of such determination, then any such contract entered into subse-
15 quent to such notification shall be submitted to the comptroller for
16 [his or her] such comptroller's approval and shall not be a valid
17 enforceable contract unless it shall first have been approved by the
18 comptroller. Such notification shall identify the process for
19 submission, the categories of contracts at issue and the time period for
20 which such submission is to take place. The comptroller shall promulgate
21 such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out [his or her]
22 such comptroller's responsibilities under this section, including but
23 not limited to the standards for determining which contracts will be
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 subject to [his or her] such comptroller's review and for approving such
2 contracts.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.
