Section 179-S. Time frames for the implementation of new programs and the execution of new contracts

1. A state agency shall have not  more  than
  one  hundred  fifty  days  following the latest date on which any of the
  appropriations covered  by  the  program  plan  become  law  to  execute
  contracts  with  not-for-profit  organizations  pursuant  to the program
  plan. Upon execution of each  contract  by  the  state  agency  and  the
  not-for-profit organization, the contract shall immediately be delivered
  to the attorney general for approval.  The attorney general shall within
  fifteen  days  of receipt either approve such contract or disapprove and
  return the contract to the state  agency  with  reasons  therefor.  Upon
  approval,  the  contract shall be delivered to the comptroller who shall
  within fifteen days of receipt either approve and file such contract  or
  disapprove  and return the contract to the state agency with his reasons
  therefor.
    2. In those instances where an RFP is not the  method  of  contracting
  identified  in  the program plan a state agency shall not have more than
  one hundred twenty days following the latest date on which  any  of  the
  appropriations  covered  by  the  program  plan  become  law  to execute
  contracts with not-for-profit  organizations  pursuant  to  the  program
  plan.
    3.  Upon  receipt  of  a  contract  disapproved by either the attorney
  general or comptroller a  state  agency  shall  immediately  notify  the
  affected not-for-profit organization and shall undertake, in conjunction
  with  the  not-for-profit  organization,  those  actions  necessary  and
  appropriate, if any, to remedy any deficiencies in the contract.