Prohibits any state agency or public authority from contracting for goods or services with a contractor or a subsidiary thereof, when the contractor or subsidiary also provides consulting services or products relating to the activity for which the state agency or public authority seeks to contract.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5571
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 13, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- 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 prohibiting any
state agency or public authority from contracting for goods and
services with a contractor or a subsidiary thereof, when the contrac-
tor or a subsidiary thereof also provides consulting services or
products relating to the activity for which the state agency or public
authority seeks to contract
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
2 139-l to read as follows:
3 § 139-l. Disqualification to contract with certain state agencies. No
4 state department, board, bureau, commission, division, office, council
5 or committee, or public authority with at least one member appointed by
6 the governor or who serves as a member by virtue of holding a civil
7 office of the state, shall contract with any entity or subsidiary there-
8 of for the provision of any good or service related to any activities
9 that are subject to the regulation of such state agency or public
10 authority, when such entity or any subsidiary thereof provides, in any
11 manner, consulting services or products relating to the activity regu-
12 lated by the state agency or public authority with which it seeks to
13 contract.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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