STATE OF NEW YORK
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8504
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 3, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- (at request of the State Comptroller)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authori-
ties and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
public authorities to comply with certain provisions of the state
finance law relating to procurements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2879 of the public authorities
2 law, as amended by chapter 564 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. Every public authority and public benefit corporation, a majority
5 of the members of which consist of persons either appointed by the
6 governor or who serve as members by virtue of holding a civil office of
7 the state, or a combination thereof, (such entities to be hereinafter in
8 this section referred to as "corporation") shall adopt by resolution
9 comprehensive guidelines consistent with the methods of evaluating bids
10 and proposals and awarding of contracts authorized by sections one
11 hundred thirty-six-a, one hundred sixty-three and one hundred sixty-
12 three-a of the state finance law and subdivision six of section eight of
13 the public buildings law, unless expressly authorized otherwise by law,
14 which detail the corporation's operative policy and instructions regard-
15 ing the use, awarding, monitoring and reporting of procurement
16 contracts. Guidelines approved by the corporation shall be annually
17 reviewed and approved by the corporation.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
19 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10526-02-1
