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Assembly Bill A9403

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to electronically secure proposal submissions to the New York state thruway authority

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

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2021-A9403 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §359, Pub Auth L

2021-A9403 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for electronically secure proposal submissions to the New York state thruway authority and electronically posted for public view.

2021-A9403 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9403
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 1, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the electron-
   ic  submission  and  public posting of bids for New York state thruway
   authority construction, reconstruction and improvement contracts
 
   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 section 6 of part TT of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, 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, the  authority  shall  proceed
 with  the  construction, reconstruction 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, OR BY ELECTRONICALLY SECURE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION AS PERMITTED  BY
 THE  AUTHORITY  AND  ELECTRONICALLY POSTED FOR PUBLIC VIEW, after public
 advertisement and upon such terms and conditions as the authority  shall
 require;  provided,  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 authori-
 ty,  all  or  any  portion  of  such work, together with any engineering
 required by the authority in connection therewith, shall be performed by
 the commissioner and his subordinates in the department  of  transporta-
 tion as agents for, and at the expense of, the authority.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14871-01-2

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