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Assembly Bill A8826

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to purchase contracts of the New York city school construction authority

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2025-A8826 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8303
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1734, Pub Auth L

2025-A8826 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the small purchase threshold for purchase contracts for supplies, materials or equipment involving an estimated expenditure in excess of the New York city school construction authority from ten thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars.

2025-A8826 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8826
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in  relation  to  increasing
   the  small  purchase  threshold for purchase contracts of the New York
   city school construction authority

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 1734 of the public
 authorities law, as added by chapter 738 of the laws of 1988, is amended
 to read as follows:
   a.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  section,  all  purchase
 contracts  for  supplies,  materials or equipment involving an estimated
 expenditure in excess of [ten] ONE  HUNDRED  thousand  dollars  and  all
 contracts  for  public work involving an estimated expenditure in excess
 of fifty thousand dollars shall be  awarded  by  the  authority  to  the
 lowest  responsible  bidder  after  obtaining  sealed bids in the manner
 hereinafter set forth. For purposes hereof, contracts  for  public  work
 shall  exclude contracts for personal, engineering and architectural, or
 professional services.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13294-01-5

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