New York A 237: Relates to harassment through electronic communication

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
A00237 Summary:

BILL NOA00237 

&nbsp

SAME ASNo Same As

&nbsp

SPONSORMagnarelli

&nbsp

COSPNSRHunter

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Amd §103, Gen Muni L

&nbsp

Enacts the "local government procurement modernization and transparency act" to modernize and increase the transparency of local government procurement of goods and services; allows a political subdivision to provide notice of requests for bids by posting the requests on the New York state contract reporter website; makes related provisions.

Go to top A00237 Actions:

BILL NOA00237 

&nbsp

01/08/2025referred to local governments

01/07/2026referred to local governments

Go to topA00237 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topA00237 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA00237 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 237

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, HUNTER -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Local Governments

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to modernizing
 and increasing the transparency of local government procurement of
 goods and services

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "local government procurement modernization and transparency act".
 3 § 2. Section 103 of the general municipal law is amended by adding a
 4 new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
 5 17. (a) As an alternative to the notice procedure set forth in subdi-
 6 vision two of this section, a political subdivision may provide notice
 7 of requests for bids by posting the requests on the New York State
 8 Contract Reporter website. In addition, the municipality must post
 9 notice of requests for bids on a website maintained by the political
 10 subdivision itself. Before a political subdivision may utilize the
 11 online notification method outlined in this subdivision, the political
 12 subdivision must adopt a local law which provides that all requests for
 13 bids will be posted online pursuant to the procedures outlined in this
 14 subdivision. After a political subdivision adopts a local law pursuant
 15 to this paragraph, notice of the local law's adoption must be published
 16 once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circu-
 17 lation within the political subdivision. In addition, a political subdi-
 18 vision must continuously and conspicuously post on its website that
 19 notices of requests for bids are posted online with a link to the
 20 webpage where current and previous requests for bids have been posted.
 21 (b) Once a political subdivision has designated the online bid notifi-
 22 cation process as the method for requesting bids, each request for bids
 23 must be continuously posted for at least five consecutive days on both

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00816-01-5

 A. 237 2

 1 the political subdivision's website and the New York State Contract
 2 Reporter website before the bid opening deadline. For the purpose of
 3 calculating the number of days, the first day the request for bids is
 4 posted online may not be counted but the day of the bid opening may be
 5 counted. The website posting must include the bid specifications, unless
 6 it is infeasible to post the bid specifications on the website in which
 7 case a summary of the request for bids must be posted online with a
 8 statement that the complete bid specifications are available in the
 9 office of the clerk of the political subdivision. The website posting
 10 must also include a statement indicating the address to which bids must
 11 be delivered and a statement of the date, time, and place where the bids
 12 will be publicly opened and read.
 13 (c) Nothing in this subdivision precludes a political subdivision from
 14 publicizing notices of a request for bids in other manners in addition
 15 to the methods outlined in this subdivision. Nothing in this subdivision
 16 precludes a newspaper from publishing information of its own accord
 17 regarding any political subdivision's not