Assembly Bill A4455

2021-2022 Legislative Session

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

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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-A4455 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Add §163-c, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A9555

2021-A4455 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-A4455 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4455
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 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-THREE, 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.
                                                            LBD04820-02-1

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