File #: Int 1298-2025    Version: * Name: Establishing standardized insurance guidelines for city contracts.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Contracts
On agenda: 5/28/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing standardized insurance guidelines for city contracts
Sponsors: Julie Won, Gale A. Brewer
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would establish insurance guidelines for all city contracts. The bill would require an agency designated by the Mayor, in consultation with the city chief procurement officer, to establish contract categories and corresponding insurance guidelines for city contractors. The guidelines would need to be provided to the Council thirty days before being finalized and reviewed at least every two years in consultation with industry representatives.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1298, 2. Int. No. 1298, 3. May 28, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-28-25, 5. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 6. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 7. Committee Report 10/23/25, 8. Hearing Testimony 10/23/25, 9. Hearing Transcript 10/23/25

Int. No. 1298

 

By Council Members Won and Brewer

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing standardized insurance guidelines for city contracts

 

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

     

Section 1. Section 6-130.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by a local law for the year 2024 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing guidelines for insurance requirements for food procurement vendors, is amended to read as follows:

§ 6-130.1 Guidelines for insurance requirements [for food procurement vendors]. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Contractor. The term "contractor" means any person or entity that enters into a contract with an agency.

Contract category. The term "contract category" means a classification of contracts based on the nature of goods or services provided, as determined by the city chief procurement officer.

[Food procurement vendor. The term "food procurement vendor" means any vendor that enters into a contract with an agency to provide food-related services.]

[Food-related services. The term "food-related services" means any services where the principal purpose of the contract is the provision, preparation, handling, transportation, storage, or serving of food.]

b. The mayor shall designate an agency or an office within the executive office of the mayor to establish guidelines for city contracts relating to the amount of insurance or type of insurance a [food procurement vendor] contractor within each contract category must carry. Such agency or office shall establish such guidelines in consultation with the [office of food policy] city chief procurement officer, and shall provide a draft of any such guidelines or changes to such guidelines to the council at least 30 days prior to finalizing them.

c. Any solicitation by an agency for [food-related] goods or services shall be consistent with the guidelines established pursuant to subdivision b of this section.

d. The agency or office designated by the mayor pursuant to subdivision b of this section shall consult with the city chief procurement officer and representatives from impacted industries to review the guidelines established pursuant to such subdivision every two years and revise such guidelines in accordance with such review.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after enactment.

 

Session 13

ARP

LS # 17807

11/14/24