Section 856. Declaration of legislative finding

The legislature finds
  that due to the  state's  continuing  loss  of  business  and  industry,
  declining  economy and its resultant excessively high net job loss it is
  necessary and appropriate to take new and aggressive  steps  to  promote
  and keep business, industry and jobs within the state of New York and it
  is therefore in the public interest of the state of New York to create a
  mechanism  to  permit  the  governor  of  the  state  of New York, under
  extraordinary circumstances, subject to provisions of this  article,  to
  award a state contract to a New York state resident business bidder over
  a  non-resident  New York state bidder with a lower submitted bid upon a
  finding that such award is in the public interest of the  state  of  New
  York.  The  legislature  also finds that increased costs incurred by the
  state from the award of the state contract  to  other  than  the  lowest
  bidder  will  be  offset  by the benefits of continued and/or additional
  state and local government tax revenues generated  by  continued  and/or
  increased  employment  within the state, and continued and/or additional
  tax revenues from such additional business being generated  within  this
  state.
    It  is  therefore the intent of this article to create and provide the
  governor of the state of New  York  with  a  mechanism  for  granting  a
  preference  in the letting of state contracts to New York state resident
  bidders, who have substantial economic ties with New York state, and who
  contribute to the state's economy where sufficient  offsetting  benefits
  would  be  realized  by  New York state in terms of state employment and
  generation of state and local tax revenues, through the exercise of this
  mechanism.
    * NB Expired July 1, 1979