Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3336
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. COONEY, HELMING, ROLISON, WEBB -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Procurement and Contracts
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to contracts for
school food services; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 103 of the general municipal law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
3 17. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, in the case of
4 contracts for goods, services, or management in the operation of a
5 school's food service, a board of education, on behalf of its school
6 district, or a board of cooperative educational services, shall have the
7 authority to award such contracts on the basis of certain scoring crite-
8 ria specifically set forth in the solicitation documents determined by
9 the procurement office or school board to be essential to the provision
10 of a safe and nutritious food service program with price being the
11 primary factor and most heavily weighted but not the determinative
12 factor.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
14 deemed repealed five years after such effective date.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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