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Senate Bill S1510

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes procurement goals for New York state food products on SUNY campuses

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2021-S1510 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Procurement And Contracts
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Add §163-c, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S6908

2021-S1510 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes procurement goals for New York state food products on SUNY campuses.

2021-S1510 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1510 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1510
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts
 
 AN ACT to amend the state  finance  law,  in  relation  to  establishing
   procurement goals for New York state food products on SUNY campuses

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 163-c to read as follows:
   §  163-C.  PROCUREMENT  GOALS FOR NEW YORK STATE FOOD PRODUCTS ON SUNY
 CAMPUSES. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "NEW YORK  STATE
 FOOD PRODUCT" SHALL MEAN A FOOD ITEM THAT IS:
   (A) GROWN, HARVESTED, OR PRODUCED IN THIS STATE; OR
   (B)  PROCESSED  INSIDE OR OUTSIDE THIS STATE COMPRISING OVER FIFTY-ONE
 PERCENT AGRICULTURAL RAW MATERIALS GROWN, HARVESTED, OR PRODUCED IN THIS
 STATE, BY WEIGHT OR VOLUME.
   2. (A) IN ORDER TO CREATE, STRENGTHEN, AND EXPAND LOCAL FARM AND  FOOD
 ECONOMIES  THROUGHOUT  NEW YORK, IT SHALL BE THE GOAL OF THIS STATE THAT
 TWENTY PERCENT OF ALL FOOD AND FOOD PRODUCTS PURCHASED BY PUBLIC UNIVER-
 SITIES, SHALL, BY TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-TWO,  BE  NEW  YORK  STATE  FOOD
 PRODUCTS.
   (B)  TO MEET THE GOALS SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION, WHEN A SUNY CONTRACT
 FOR THE PURCHASE OF FOOD OR FOOD PRODUCTS IS TO BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST
 RESPONSIBLE BIDDER, AN OTHERWISE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHO WILL  FULFILL  THE
 CONTRACT  THROUGH  THE  USE OF NEW YORK STATE FOOD PRODUCTS MAY BE GIVEN
 PREFERENCE OVER OTHER BIDDERS, PROVIDED THAT THE COST  INCLUDED  IN  THE
 BID OF NEW YORK STATE FOOD PRODUCTS IS NOT MORE THAN TEN PERCENT GREATER
 THAN  THE  COST  INCLUDED  IN  A BID THAT IS NOT FOR NEW YORK STATE FOOD
 PRODUCTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04820-01-1

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