Senate Bill S3661

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to comprehensive diversity in procurement and employment act of 2021

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S3661 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3830
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§162 & 179-f, St Fin L; amd §4-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8425, A11146
2019-2020: S5490, A1622
2023-2024: A2503

2021-S3661 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the comprehensive diversity in procurement and employment act to encourage full and equal participation in public sector business opportunities across the state.

2021-S3661 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3661 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3661
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE,  GRIFFO,  KENNEDY, ORTT -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the executive law, in relation
   to  the  comprehensive  diversity in procurement and employment act of
   2019

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "comprehen-
 sive diversity in procurement and employment act of 2021".
   §  2. Subdivisions 1 and 9 of section 162 of the state finance law, as
 added by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, are amended to read as follows:
   1. Purpose. To advance special social  and  economic  goals,  selected
 providers  shall  have  preferred  source  status  for  the  purposes of
 procurement in accordance with the provisions of this section.  Procure-
 ment from  these  providers  shall  be  exempted  from  the  competitive
 procurement  provisions of section one hundred sixty-three of this arti-
 cle and other competitive procurement  statutes.  Such  exemption  shall
 apply  to  commodities  produced,  manufactured  or assembled, including
 those repackaged to meet the form,  function  and  utility  required  by
 state  agencies,  PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, COMMISSIONS, PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPO-
 RATIONS, POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS, OR MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS in  New  York
 state  and,  where  so designated, services provided by those sources in
 accordance with this section.
   9.  PAYMENTS TO AGENCIES FOR THE BLIND, OTHER  SEVERELY  DISABLED  AND
 VETERANS' WORKSHOPS. THE REQUIRED PAYMENT DATE SHALL BE FIFTEEN CALENDAR
 DAYS,  EXCLUDING  LEGAL  HOLIDAYS,  AFTER  RECEIPT OF AN INVOICE FOR THE
 AMOUNT OF THE CONTRACT PAYMENT DUE; EXCEPT WHEN:
   (A) THE STATE COMPTROLLER IN THE COURSE OF HIS OR HER AUDIT DETERMINES
 THAT THERE IS REASONABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT PAYMENT MAY NOT  PROPERLY
 BE DUE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART;
   (B)  IN  ACCORDANCE WITH SPECIFIC STATUTORY OR CONTRACTUAL PROVISIONS,
 PAYMENT MUST BE PRECEDED BY AN INSPECTION  PERIOD  OR  BY  AN  AUDIT  TO
 
              

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