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Senate Bill S7381

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides that the thruway authority may award contracts under one hundred thousand dollars to minority and women owned businesses without competitive bidding

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2009-S7381 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง359, Pub Auth L

2009-S7381 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the Thruway Authority may award contracts under one hundred thousand dollars to minority and women owned businesses without competitive bidding.

2009-S7381 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7381 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7381

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              April 5, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to contracts for
  minority and women owned businesses

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 359 of the public authorities law,
as  amended  by  chapter  766 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. On assuming jurisdiction of a thruway section or connection or  any
part thereof, or of a highway connection, or of the New York state canal
system,  the  authority  shall  proceed  with  the  construction, recon-
struction or improvement thereof. All such work shall be  done  pursuant
to  a contract or contracts which shall be let to the lowest responsible
bidder, by sealed proposals publicly opened, after public  advertisement
and  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as the authority shall require;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT CONTRACTS NOT  EXCEEDING  ONE  HUNDRED  THOUSAND
DOLLARS  AWARDED  TO  A  MINORITY  OR WOMEN OWNED BUSINESS AS DEFINED IN
SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE  OF
THIS  CHAPTER  ARE NOT SUBJECT TO COMPETITIVE BIDDING; provided, FURTHER
however, that the authority may reject any and  all  proposals  and  may
advertise  for new proposals, as herein provided, if in its opinion, the
best interests of the  authority  will  thereby  be  promoted;  provided
further,  however,  that  at  the  request  of the authority, all or any
portion of such work, together with  any  engineering  required  by  the
authority in connection therewith, shall be performed by the commission-
er  and  his  subordinates in the department of transportation as agents
for, and at the expense of, the authority.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD16454-01-0

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