Senate Bill S5759A

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 5759--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 2, 2015
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Introduced  by  Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recom-
  mitted to the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate  Rule  6,
  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
  amended and recommitted to said committee

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.
                                                           LBD09779-06-6
              

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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
THREE YEARS, BEGINNING MAY FIFTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN, EACH AGEN-
CY SHALL INCLUDE IN SUCH ANNUAL REPORT ITS THREE YEAR GROWTH PLAN PURSU-
ANT TO SECTION THREE HUNDRED ELEVEN OF THIS ARTICLE.
  S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law; provided, however, the amendments to sections 311 and
315 of the executive law made by  sections  one  and  two  of  this  act
respectively, shall not affect the expiration of such sections and shall
be deemed to expire therewith.