Assembly Bill A9141

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to increased participation in state contracts and subcontracts by certified minority and women owned business enterprises

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A9141 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1568
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§311, 312, 313, 315 & 316, Exec L; amd §§137, 139-f & 139-g, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S7654
2011-2012: S380
2013-2014: S1681
2017-2018: A1255, S4448
2019-2020: A1975, S766
2021-2022: A2321, S4473
2023-2024: A7787, S5464

2015-A9141 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to increased participation in state contracts and subcontracts by certified minority and women owned business enterprises; relates to certain performance and payment bond requirements.

2015-A9141 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9141

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive  law,  in  relation  to  participation  by
  minority  group  members  and  women  with  respect  to  certain state
  contracts; and to amend the state finance law, in relation  to  estab-
  lishing  a  mentor-protege  program  for small and minority and women-
  owned business concerns and in relation  to  performance  and  payment
  bond requirements

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 311 of the  executive  law,
subdivision  3  as  added by chapter 261 of the laws of 1988, paragraphs
(d) and (e) of subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 55  of  the  laws  of
1992,  paragraphs  (g) and (h) of subdivision 3 as amended and paragraph
(i) of subdivision 3 as added by section 1 of part BB of chapter  59  of
the laws of 2006 and subdivision 4 as amended by chapter 361 of the laws
of 2009, are amended to read as follows:
  3. The director shall have the following powers and duties:
  (a)  to  encourage and assist contracting agencies in their efforts to
increase participation by minority and women-owned business  enterprises
on  state  contracts and subcontracts so as to facilitate the award of a
fair share of such contracts to them AND TO PROVIDE  ON  THE  DIVISION'S
WEBSITE  A  LIST  OF  EACH CONTRACTING AGENCY'S MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED
BUSINESS ENTERPRISES CERTIFICATION OUTREACH SEMINARS;
  (b) to develop standardized forms and reporting documents necessary to
implement this article;
  (c) to conduct educational OUTREACH programs TO ENCOURAGE THE  CERTIF-
ICATION OF MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES consistent with
the purposes of this article;
  (d) to review [periodically] QUARTERLY the practices and procedures of
each  contracting  agency with respect to compliance with the provisions
of this article, and  to  require  them  to  file  [periodic]  QUARTERLY
reports  with  the division of minority and women's business development
as to the level of minority and women-owned business enterprises partic-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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