Provides that state-funded SUNY programs shall be reimbursed at no less than 26% of the direct costs; allows state agencies to fund SUNY programs where such state agencies determine that such program would produce administrative efficiencies or cost savings.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7424
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 16, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to funding of state
university of New York programs by state agencies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. All New York state sponsored programs conducted by the
2 state university of New York and funded by a New York state agency shall
3 be reimbursed at no less than twenty-six percent of the direct costs
4 necessary to fulfill the obligations of such program's terms related to
5 costs not otherwise allowable as a direct charge.
6 § 2. Section 179-ee of the state finance law is amended by adding a
7 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
8 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article to the contra-
9 ry, for the purposes of a contract for a New York state sponsored
10 program conducted by the state university of New York and funded by a
11 state agency, a state agency may award a sole source contract to the
12 research foundation of the state university of New York, on behalf of
13 the state of New York, when the state agency determines that operation
14 of such sponsored program by the state university of New York would
15 produce administrative efficiencies or cost savings or program results
16 which would exceed those likely to be achieved through the use of a
17 request for proposals.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to
19 contracts awarded on or after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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