S 2232: Increases the discretionary buying threshold for state agencies purchasing commodities from small business concerns, certified minority and women-owned businesses and certified veteran companies.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2232 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 the discretionary buying thresholds The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 163 of the state finance law, as 2 amended by chapter 110 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 6. Discretionary buying thresholds. Pursuant to guidelines established 5 by the state procurement council: 6 (a) the commissioner may purchase services and commodities for the 7 office of general services or its customer agencies serviced by the 8 office of general services business services center in an amount not 9 exceeding eighty-five thousand dollars without a formal competitive 10 process; 11 (b) state agencies may purchase services and commodities in an amount 12 not exceeding fifty thousand dollars without a formal competitive proc- 13 ess; 14 (c) state agencies may purchase commodities or services from small 15 business concerns, or commodities or technology that are recycled or 16 remanufactured in an amount not exceeding [five hundred thousand] one 17 million dollars without a formal competitive process; 18 (d) state agencies may purchase commodities or services from those 19 certified pursuant to article fifteen-A of the executive law and article 20 three of the veterans' services law in an amount not exceeding [seven 21 hundred fifty thousand] one million dollars without a formal competitive 22 process; and 23 (e) state agencies may purchase commodities that are food, including 24 milk and milk products, or animal or plant fiber products, grown, 25 produced, harvested, or processed in New York state or textile products EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03608-01-5 
 S. 2232 2 1 manufactured from animal or plant fiber grown or produced predominantly 2 in New York state in an amount not to exceed two hundred thousand 3 dollars without a formal competitive process. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 5 the amendments to section 163 of the state finance law made by section 6 one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be 7 deemed repealed therewith.