STATE OF NEW YORK
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4607
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 21, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 an office of
general services tracking database for food procured by agencies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph g of subdivision 4 of section
2 165 of the state finance law, as amended by chapter 533 of the laws of
3 2013, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) a description of the office's efforts to improve and increase the
5 tracking of information relating to New York state food procured by
6 agencies including, but not limited to, a description of data systems
7 and technologies used for tracking such information as well as deficien-
8 cies within, and alternatives to, such data tracking systems and tech-
9 nologies as implemented; and
10 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 165 of the state finance law is amended
11 by adding a new paragraph i to read as follows:
12 i. The commissioner and the commissioner of agriculture and markets,
13 shall advise and assist local government entities on data collection
14 methods pertaining to this subdivision and encourage the voluntary
15 reporting of such information to the office of general services for the
16 purpose of analysis and development of best practices.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00361-01-7
