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Senate Bill S9370

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to centralized contracts for services

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2025-S9370 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Procurement And Contracts
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §163, St Fin L

2025-S9370 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends provisions of law from making it mandatory to optional that where the purchase of services by state agencies be conducted in a manner that accords second priority to centralized contracts meeting form, function and utility required by such agency, third priority to agency or multi-agency contracts and fourth priority to other means of contracting.

2025-S9370 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9370 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9370
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 5, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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  centralized
   contracts for services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph b of subdivision 4 of section
 163 of the state finance law, as amended by section 7 of part L of chap-
 ter 55 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) Centralized contracts for services may be procured by  the  office
 of general services at the request of state agencies or as determined by
 the  commissioner.  The  purchase  of services by state agencies, except
 state agencies where the head of the agency  is  not  appointed  by  the
 governor,  including  but not limited to the state education department,
 the department of law, and the department of audit and control,  [shall]
 MAY be conducted in a manner that accords second priority to centralized
 contracts  meeting  form,  function and utility required by said agency,
 third priority to  agency  or  multi-agency  established  contracts  and
 fourth priority to other means of contracting.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to section 163 of the state finance law made  by  section
 one  of  this  act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall
 expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14989-01-6

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