File #: Int 0002-2026    Version: Name: Approval for emergency procurements and submission of contracts for audit.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Contracts
On agenda: 1/29/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to approval for emergency procurements and submission of contracts for audit
Sponsors: Julie Menin, Phil Wong , Farah N. Louis, Linda Lee, Yusef Salaam, Gale A. Brewer, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Joann Ariola
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: The charter requires prior approval by the Comptroller and Corporation Counsel of emergency procurements. This bill would limit the term of any emergency contract to 90 days, unless prior written approval is offered by the Comptroller and Corporation counsel for a longer period of time. Any written approval for an emergency contract of greater than 90 days requires a justification for why the longer term is necessary to avoid or mitigate a serious danger to life, safety, property, or a necessary service and why regular contracting procurement methods cannot avoid or mitigate those risks. The bill also requires emergency contracts to be submitted to the Comptroller for audit within 15 days of when the contract is executed, provided that failure to submit a contract within 15 days would not automatically void such contract.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 2-B, 2. Summary of Int. No. 2-A, 3. Summary of Int. No. 2, 4. Int. No. 2, 5. Committee Report 1/27/26, 6. Hearing Testimony 1/27/26, 7. Hearing Transcript 1/27/26, 8. January 29, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 9. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 1-29-26, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 11. Proposed Int. No. 2-A - 2/6/26, 12. Proposed Int. No. 2-B - 2/20/26, 13. Committee Report 2/24/26, 14. Proposed Int. No. 2-B -Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 15. Hearing Transcript 2/24/26, 16. February 24, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 17. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 18. Int. No. 2-B (FINAL)
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2/24/2026BJulie Menin City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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2/24/2026*Julie Menin Committee on Contracts Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/24/2026*Julie Menin Committee on Contracts Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
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1/29/2026*Julie Menin City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/29/2026*Julie Menin City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/27/2026*Julie Menin Committee on Contracts Hearing on P-C Item by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/27/2026*Julie Menin Committee on Contracts P-C Item Laid Over by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 2-B

 

By The Speaker (Council Member Menin) and Council Members Wong, Louis, Lee, Salaam, Brewer, Brooks-Powers and Ariola

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to approval for emergency procurements and submission of contracts for audit

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 315 of the New York city charter, as amended by local law number 135 for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows:

§ 315. Emergency procurement. Notwithstanding the provisions of section three hundred twelve of this chapter, in the case of unforeseen danger to life, safety, property or a necessary service, an emergency procurement may be made with the prior approval of the comptroller and corporation counsel, provided that such procurement shall be made with such competition as is practicable under the circumstances, consistent with the provisions of section three hundred seventeen of this chapter. The term of any emergency contract awarded pursuant to this section shall not exceed ninety days, except with the prior specific determination of the comptroller and the corporation counsel that a longer term is necessary to avoid or mitigate serious danger to life, safety, property, or a necessary service and that such danger cannot be successfully avoided or mitigated through normal procurement methods. A written determination of the basis for the emergency[ and], the selection of the contractor, and the term of the contract, including a justification for any term exceeding ninety days and why such longer term meets the requirements of this section, shall be placed in the agency contract file, and shall further be submitted to the council no later than fifteen days following contract award, and the determination or summary of such determination shall be included in the notice of the award of contract published pursuant to section three hundred twenty-five of this chapter.

§ 2. Paragraph (1) of subdivision d of section 328 of the New York city charter, as added by a vote of the electors at a general election held on November 7, 1989, is amended to read as follows:

(1) an emergency contract awarded pursuant to section three hundred fifteen or to an accelerated procurement as defined under section three hundred twenty-six, provided that the agency shall, [as soon as is practicable,] within fifteen days of the execution of any such contract, submit [any] such contract to the comptroller for an audit of the procedures and basis for the determination of the need for an emergency or accelerated procurement, and provided that failure by an agency to submit a contract within fifteen days of execution shall not affect the validity of such contract, or

§ 3. This local law takes effect 45 days after it becomes law, provided that section one of this local law shall apply only to an emergency procurement approved by the comptroller and the corporation counsel after such date.

 

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