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Assembly Bill A2475

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to factoring in the cultural competency and linguistic accessibility of privatization contracts

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2017-A2475 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §161, St Fin L; amd §20-c, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A9896

2017-A2475 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to factoring in the cultural competency and linguistic accessibility of privatization contracts.

2017-A2475 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2475
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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.
   §  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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD02630-01-7

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