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Assembly Bill A6872A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Directs contracting state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to increase participation of MWBEs with respect to state contracts and subcontracts

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2015-A6872 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5759
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§311 & 315, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A4322, S3806
2019-2020: A5171, S2216
2021-2022: A6615, A10558, S3391
2023-2024: A7810, S1424
2025-2026: A333, S1218

2015-A6872 - Summary

Directs contracting state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to increase participation of minority- and women-owned businesses with respect to state contracts and subcontracts.

2015-A6872 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6872

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 8, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing  contracting
  state  agencies  to develop a growth plan in order to increase partic-
  ipation of MWBEs with respect to state contracts and subcontracts

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  311  of the executive law is
amended by adding a new paragraph (d-1) to read as follows:
  (D-1) TO REQUIRE ALL CONTRACTING STATE AGENCIES  TO  DEVELOP  A  THREE
YEAR  GROWTH  PLAN  TO  DETERMINE  A  MEANS  OF PROMOTING AND INCREASING
PARTICIPATION BY MINORITY-OWNED  AND  WOMEN-OWNED  BUSINESS  ENTERPRISES
WITH  RESPECT  TO  STATE  CONTRACTS AND SUBCONTRACTS. EVERY THREE YEARS,
BEGINNING MAY FIFTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN,  EACH  CONTRACTING  STATE
AGENCY  SHALL  SUBMIT  A  THREE  YEAR  GROWTH PLAN AS PART OF ITS ANNUAL
REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE PURSUANT TO SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED
SIXTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER.
  S  2.  Subdivision  5 of section 315 of the executive law, as added by
chapter 175 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
  5. Each agency shall include in its annual report to the governor  and
legislature pursuant to section one hundred sixty-four of [the executive
law] THIS CHAPTER its annual goals for contracts with minority-owned and
women-owned  business enterprises, the number of actual contracts issued
to minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises; and a summary of
all waivers of the requirements of subdivisions six and seven of section
three hundred thirteen of this article allowed by the  reporting  agency
during  the  preceding year, including a description of the basis of the
waiver request and the rationale for granting such waiver.  Each  agency
shall  also  include  in  such  annual report whether or not it has been
required to prepare a remedial plan, and, if so, the plan and the extent
to which the agency has complied with each element of  the  plan.  EVERY

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09779-03-5

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2015-A6872A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5759
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§311 & 315, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A4322, S3806
2019-2020: A5171, S2216
2021-2022: A6615, A10558, S3391
2023-2024: A7810, S1424
2025-2026: A333, S1218

2015-A6872A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs contracting state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to increase participation of minority- and women-owned businesses with respect to state contracts and subcontracts.

2015-A6872A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 6872--A
                                                        Cal. No. 256

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 8, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BLAKE, COLTON, MOSLEY, BARRON, COOK, JOYNER,
  WRIGHT, SEAWRIGHT, RODRIGUEZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  CLARK,
  PEOPLES-STOKES,  THIELE  -- read once and referred to the Committee on
  Governmental Operations -- advanced to a third  reading,  amended  and
  ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading

AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing contracting
  state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to  increase  partic-
  ipation of MWBEs with respect to state contracts and subcontracts

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of  section  311  of  the  executive  law  is
amended by adding a new paragraph (d-1) to read as follows:
  (D-1)  TO  REQUIRE  ALL  CONTRACTING STATE AGENCIES TO DEVELOP A THREE
YEAR GROWTH PLAN TO  DETERMINE  A  MEANS  OF  PROMOTING  AND  INCREASING
PARTICIPATION  BY  MINORITY-OWNED  AND  WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES
WITH RESPECT TO STATE CONTRACTS AND  SUBCONTRACTS.  EVERY  THREE  YEARS,
BEGINNING  MAY FIFTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN, EACH CONTRACTING STATE
AGENCY SHALL SUBMIT A THREE YEAR GROWTH  PLAN  AS  PART  OF  ITS  ANNUAL
REPORT  TO  THE GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED
SIXTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER.
  S 2. Subdivision 5 of section 315 of the executive law,  as  added  by
chapter 175 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
  5.  Each agency shall include in its annual report to the governor and
legislature pursuant to section one hundred sixty-four of [the executive
law] THIS CHAPTER its annual goals for contracts with minority-owned and
women-owned business enterprises, the number of actual contracts  issued
to minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises; and a summary of
all waivers of the requirements of subdivisions six and seven of section
three  hundred  thirteen of this article allowed by the reporting agency
during the preceding year, including a description of the basis  of  the
waiver  request  and the rationale for granting such waiver. Each agency

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

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