STATE OF NEW YORK
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6707
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, McDONALD -- (at request of the State
Comptroller) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
mental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the public posting
of certain contracts otherwise subject to prior approval of the comp-
troller
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
2 149 to read as follows:
3 § 149. Certain contracts to be publicly posted. 1. For purposes of
4 this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
5 (a) "Emergency contract" shall mean:
6 (i) any contract otherwise subject to prior approval by the comp-
7 troller pursuant to section one hundred twelve of the state finance law,
8 which is executed or made effective in accordance with an executive
9 order of the governor temporarily suspending such law, or any part ther-
10 eof, pursuant to such governor's authority under section twenty-nine-a
11 of the executive law; and
12 (ii) any contract otherwise eligible for prior approval by the comp-
13 troller pursuant to any provision of law, including section twenty-eight
14 hundred seventy-nine-a of the public authorities law, which is executed
15 or made effective in accordance with an executive order of the governor
16 temporarily suspending such law, or any part thereof, pursuant to such
17 governor's authority under section twenty-nine-a of the executive law.
18 (b) "Exempted contract" shall mean:
19 (i) any contract otherwise subject to prior approval by the comp-
20 troller pursuant to section one hundred twelve of the state finance law,
21 which is executed or made effective in accordance with any provision of
22 law expressly and specifically suspending the provisions of, exempting,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 or otherwise notwithstanding section one hundred twelve of the state
2 finance law, or any part thereof; and
3 (ii) any contract otherwise eligible for prior approval by the comp-
4 troller pursuant to any provision of law, including section twenty-eight
5 hundred seventy-nine-a of the public authorities law, which is executed
6 or made effective in accordance with any provision of law suspending the
7 provisions of, exempting, or otherwise notwithstanding such law, or any
8 part thereof.
9 2. (a) Within thirty days following the execution of an emergency
10 contract or an exempted contract, such state agency, department, board,
11 officer, commission, state authority, or institution shall post on the
12 contracting entity's public website the following information regarding
13 such emergency contract or exempted contract by contract number:
14 (i) if the contract is an emergency contract, the emergency declara-
15 tion that such contract pertains to, and if the contract is an exempted
16 contract, the provision of law suspended or exempted;
17 (ii) a brief description of the contract, including:
18 (A) the amount of the contract;
19 (B) the name of the vendor(s);
20 (C) the contract term;
21 (D) what is being provided by the contract; and
22 (E) if the contract is an emergency contract, a statement explaining
23 how the contract relates to the declared state disaster emergency; and
24 (b) whether the contract was awarded based on a competitive process,
25 and if not awarded pursuant to a competitive process, an explanation of
26 why a competitive process was not undertaken.
27 3. The provisions of this section shall not be suspended, modified, or
28 altered by the governor's authority to temporarily suspend provisions of
29 law during a state disaster emergency pursuant to section twenty-nine-a
30 of the executive law.
31 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
32 have become a law.
