STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2685 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 22, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 permitting the state and local municipalities to purchase from sources other than the correctional industries program of the department of corrections and community supervision The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 2 162 of the state finance law, as amended by section 164 of subpart B of 3 part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 4 (i) When commodities are available, in the form, function and utility 5 required by a state agency, public authority, commission, public benefit 6 corporation or political subdivision, said commodities [must] may be 7 purchased first from the correctional industries program of the depart- 8 ment of corrections and community supervision; 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04807-01-5