Assembly Actions -
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Jan 08, 2020 |
referred to local government returned to senate died in assembly |
Mar 06, 2019 |
referred to local governments delivered to assembly passed senate |
Feb 11, 2019 |
advanced to third reading |
Feb 05, 2019 |
2nd report cal. |
Feb 04, 2019 |
1st report cal.110 |
Jan 09, 2019 |
referred to local government |
Senate Bill S252
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 63rd Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) 54th Senate District
(D, WF) 48th Senate District
(D, WF) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2019-S252 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S252 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S252 SPONSOR: KENNEDY TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to facilitating school districts in purchasing local agricultural products PURPOSE: By removing certain limitations imposed by the General Municipal Law, this bill will help schools that wish to integrate a variety of local agricultural products in to their food services be able to do so. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: The cap on limited local purchasing imposed by Article 5-A of the Gener- al Municipal Law, section 103, subdivision 9, paragraph b will be removed in its entirety. That article and section of the General Munici- pal Law will also have a new subdivision added, 16. That subdivision would allow a Board of Education to include language in an offer for bids favoring local or regional procurement if certain standards were
2019-S252 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 252 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to facilitating school districts in purchasing local agricultural products THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraphs (b), (b-1) and (c) of subdivision 9 of section 103 of the general municipal law, paragraphs (b) and (c) as amended and paragraph (b-1) as added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2017, are amended to read as follows: (b) [the amount that may be expended by a school district in any fiscal year for such purchases shall not exceed an amount equal to twen- ty cents multiplied by the total number of days in the school year multiplied by the total enrollment of such school district; (b-1) the amount that may be expended by a board of cooperative educa- tional services in any fiscal year for such purchases shall not exceed an amount equal to twenty cents multiplied by the total number of days in the school year multiplied by the number of students receiving services by such board of cooperative educational services at facilities operated by a board of cooperative educational services; (c)] all such purchases shall be administered pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner of education. Such regulations shall: be developed in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets to accommodate and promote the provisions of the farm-to-school program established pursuant to subdivision five-b of section sixteen of the agriculture and markets law and subdivision thirty-one of section three hundred five of the education law as added by chapter two of the laws of two thousand [two] ONE; ensure that the prices paid by a district or board of cooperative educational services for any items so purchased do not exceed the prices of comparable local farm products EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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