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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 12, 2014
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Introduced  by  M.  of A. ROZIC, BRENNAN -- (at request of the Dormitory
  Authority) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations,
  Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the facilities development corporation act, in  relation
  to  raising  the  financial ceiling above which construction contracts
  must be publicly bid

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

  Section  1.  The  opening paragraph of paragraph g of subdivision 2 of
section 9 of section 1 of chapter 359 of the laws of 1968,  constituting
the facilities development corporation act, as amended by chapter 127 of
the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  All contracts which are to be awarded pursuant to this paragraph shall
be   awarded   by  public  letting  in  accordance  with  the  following
provisions,  notwithstanding  any  contrary  provision  of  section  one
hundred  thirty-six, one hundred thirty-nine or one hundred forty of the
state finance law, except that in the discretion of the directors of the
corporation, a contract may be entered into for  such  purposes  without
public  letting  where  the  estimated  expense  thereof is no more than
[forty] EIGHTY thousand dollars:
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14107-01-4