Provides that guidelines by the state procurement council shall include certain preferences for any business located in a county within the state with a population of less than one million based on the latest federal decennial census or any small business as such term is defined in section one hundred thirty-one of the economic development law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7440--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
October 15, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to guidelines by the
state procurement council
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 161 of the state finance law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 2-a. The guidelines established pursuant to this section shall include
4 a preference for any business located in a county within the state with
5 a population of less than one million based on the latest federal decen-
6 nial census or any small business, as such term is defined in section
7 one hundred thirty-one of the economic development law.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13291-04-1
