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This bill updates procedures and timelines for contracting the publication of New York's official court reports.
Why it matters
Modernizes the bidding process for court report publication contracts. by shifting public notice requirements from multiple city newspapers to a statewide procurement newsletter, potentially increasing transparency and accessibility for prospective bidders.
Accelerates the contract timeline. by moving critical deadlines several months earlier in the year (from September/October/November to April/May/June), which could expedite the selection process and improve planning for both the courts and publishers.
Updates language to be more inclusive and precise. (e.g., changing references from “he” to “the state reporter”), reflecting contemporary standards in legal and governmental documents.
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Update Court Report Contracts
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Signed chap.116
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
- 3rd reading cal.873
- Substituted for S5737
- Referred to judiciary
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.238
- Reported
- Referred to judiciary
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Update Court Publication Contracts
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor John J. Bonacic
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6955
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 28, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD, WEINSTEIN -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to publication of official reports
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 and 4 of section 434 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 218 of the laws of 1985, are amended to read as follows:
3. In each year immediately preceding the expiration of the contract to be let as hereinafter provided, the state reporter shall give notice that a contract will be let for said printing and publication, together with a reference to this section, and that on or before the first day of [September] April in such year, [he] the state reporter will receive sealed proposals for such contract. Such notice shall be given [by publication thereof once in each of the first weeks of June, July and August, respectively, in a newspaper to be designated by the state reporter, published in each of the following cities, namely: New York, Albany, Rochester and Buffalo; such newspapers to be so designated as shall be most likely to give notice to the public of such letting; the expense of such publication to be paid by the state treasurer from the general funds of the state, after the same shall have been approved in writing by the state reporter and audited according to law] beginning in the first week of January in the procurement opportunities newsletter published by the commissioner of economic development pursuant to section one hundred forty-two of the economic development law.
4. Said contract shall be let to the person who will publish and sell said reports and said combined official series, together with the weekly advance sheets thereof, and furnish the required copies to the various state and county officials, on terms deemed by said state reporter most
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advantageous to the public and the state, regard being had to the proper execution of the work. Said contract shall be let not earlier than the [sixteenth] first of [October] May, nor later than the first of [November] June, in such years.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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