NY A02496

Expands New York's preferred source procurement program to include qualified charitable nonprofit agencies serving formerly incarcerated persons, allowing these agencies to sell commodities and services to state agencies without competitive bidding

Adds "assembled or fulfilled" to the types of commodity work that qualifies for preferred source status, alongside commodities that are produced, manufactured, or repackaged

Requires the Commissioner of Education to approve nonprofit agencies serving formerly incarcerated persons for preferred source status, following the same approval process used for agencies serving disabled persons

Maintains existing requirements that preferred source providers must perform 50% or more of the work and that prices cannot exceed 15% above prevailing market prices

Allows newly qualified agencies serving formerly incarcerated persons to purchase materials from state centralized contracts and the correctional industries program