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                                   7243
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 21, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in  relation  to  increasing  the
   state  discretionary  buying  threshold  without  a formal competitive
   process for certain commodities from certain businesses

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 6 of section 163 of the state finance law, as
 amended by chapter 110 of the laws  of  2024,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   6. Discretionary buying thresholds. Pursuant to guidelines established
 by the state procurement council:
   (a)  the  commissioner  may  purchase services and commodities for the
 office of general services or its  customer  agencies  serviced  by  the
 office  of  general  services  business services center in an amount not
 exceeding eighty-five thousand  dollars  without  a  formal  competitive
 process;
   (b)  state agencies may purchase services and commodities in an amount
 not exceeding fifty thousand dollars without a formal competitive  proc-
 ess;
   (c)  state  agencies  may  purchase commodities or services, INCLUDING
 CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, from small business concerns, or  commodities  or
 technology  that are recycled or remanufactured in an amount not exceed-
 ing ONE MILLION five hundred thousand dollars without a  formal  compet-
 itive process;
   (d)  state  agencies  may  purchase commodities or services from those
 certified pursuant to article fifteen-A of the executive law and article
 three of the veterans' services law in an  amount  not  exceeding  seven
 hundred fifty thousand dollars without a formal competitive process; and
   (e)  state  agencies may purchase commodities that are food, including
 milk and milk products,  or  animal  or  plant  fiber  products,  grown,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11072-01-5
              

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 produced,  harvested, or processed in New York state or textile products
 manufactured from animal or plant fiber grown or produced  predominantly
 in  New  York  state  in  an  amount  not to exceed two hundred thousand
 dollars without a formal competitive process.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law; 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 be deemed repealed there-
 with. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
 rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act  on  its
 effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
 date.