STATE OF NEW YORK
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4197
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 6, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 increasing the
state discretionary buying threshold without a formal competitive
process for certain commodities from certain businesses
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 separately amended by section 28 of part PP of chapter 56 and chapter
3 572 of the laws of 2022, is 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 for the office of general services or its customer agen-
7 cies serviced by the office of general services business services center
8 in an amount not exceeding eighty-five thousand dollars without a formal
9 competitive process; state agencies may purchase services and commod-
10 ities in an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars without a formal
11 competitive process; and state agencies may purchase commodities or
12 services from small business concerns or those certified pursuant to
13 article fifteen-A of the executive law and article three of the veter-
14 ans' services law, or commodities or technology that are recycled or
15 remanufactured in an amount not exceeding [five hundred thousand] one
16 million dollars without a formal competitive process and for commodities
17 that are food, including milk and milk products, or animal or plant
18 fiber products, grown, produced, harvested, or processed in New York
19 state or textile products manufactured from animal or plant fiber grown
20 or produced predominantly in New York state in an amount not to exceed
21 two hundred thousand dollars, without a formal competitive process.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after the effec-
23 tive date of section 28 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022
24 takes effect; provided, however, that the amendments to section 163 of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the state finance law, made by section one of this act, shall not affect
2 the repeal of such section and be deemed repealed therewith. Effective
3 immediately the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regu-
4 lation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
5 date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.