S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9896
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 22, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the social services law, in
relation to factoring in the cultural competency and linguistic acces-
sibility of privatization contracts
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 161 of the state finance law is
amended by adding a new paragraph o to read as follows:
O. ESTABLISH GUIDELINES FOR PRIVATIZATION CONTRACTS PURSUANT TO
SECTION TWENTY-C OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW, SUCH GUIDELINES SHALL
REQUIRE CRITERIA TO ELEVATE CULTURAL COMPETENCY AND LINGUISTIC ACCESSI-
BILITY OF SERVICES FOR SUCH CONTRACT.
S 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 20-c of the social
services law, as added by section 151 of part B of chapter 436 of the
laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Social services districts may enter into a contract or agreement
for the performance of functions, duties or obligations required to be
performed pursuant to this chapter, however, the collective bargaining
representative of employees who normally perform such functions or
provide such services for such social services district shall be permit-
ted the opportunity to competitively bid for any contract let pursuant
to this section with the overall cost [and quality], CULTURAL COMPETENCY
AND LINGUISTIC ACCESSIBILITY of the proposal being major criteria in the
selection.
S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14796-02-6
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