Do you support this bill?

Assembly Bill A7562

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to required prime contractor executive management staff for state contracts

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

2015-A7562 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง313, Exec L

2015-A7562 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to required prime contractor executive management staff for state contracts.

2015-A7562 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7562

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 19, 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  required  prime
  contractor executive management staff for state contracts

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

  Section 1. Paragraphs (h) and (i) of subdivision 2-a of section 313 of
the executive law, as added by chapter 175 of  the  laws  of  2010,  are
amended and a new paragraph (j) is added to read as follows:
  (h)  provide  for  the  collection  of statistical data by each agency
concerning actual minority and women-owned business  enterprise  partic-
ipation; [and]
  (i)  require  each  agency to consult the most current disparity study
when calculating agency-wide and contract specific  participation  goals
pursuant to this article[.]; AND
  (J)  REQUIRE  THAT EACH PRIME CONTRACTOR INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE MINORITY
AND ONE WOMAN AS PART OF THEIR EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT STAFF. IF SUCH PRIME
CONTRACTOR DOES NOT CURRENTLY HAVE THE REQUIRED STAFF AS SET FORTH UNDER
THIS PARAGRAPH, SUCH CONTRACTOR SHALL, PRIOR TO  RECEIVING  ANY  FUNDING
FOR SUCH CONTRACT, (I) ESTABLISH A JOINT VENTURE WITH A CERTIFIED MINOR-
ITY OR WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE AND BOTH BUSINESSES SHALL THEN SERVE AS
CO-PRIME  CONTRACTORS; OR (II) IDENTIFY A PERSON OR PERSONS TO FILL SUCH
EXECUTIVE POSITION FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROJECT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided  however,  that
the  amendments  to section 313 of the executive law made by section one
of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be
deemed to expire therewith.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11035-02-5

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.