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Senate Bill S9038

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Changes the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have from three hundred employees to three hundred employees who work thirty or more hours per week

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2019-S9038 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §310, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S541
2023-2024: S1873

2019-S9038 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have from three hundred employees to three hundred employees who work thirty or more hours per week, on average over the period of fifty-two weeks.

2019-S9038 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S9038 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9038
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              October 9, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. KAPLAN, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to changing  the  maximum
   number  of  employees  that a minority and women-owned business enter-
   prise may have from three hundred employees to three hundred employees
   who work thirty or more hours per week

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  20  of  section 310 of the executive law, as
 added by chapter 175 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   20. "Small business" as used in this section, unless  otherwise  indi-
 cated,  shall  mean a business which has a significant business presence
 in the state, is independently owned and operated, not dominant  in  its
 field and employs, based on its industry, a certain number of persons as
 determined  by  the  director, but not to exceed three hundred EMPLOYEES
 WHO WORK THIRTY OR MORE HOURS PER WEEK, ON AVERAGE OVER  THE  PERIOD  OF
 FIFTY-TWO  WEEKS,  taking  into consideration factors which include, but
 are not limited to,  federal  small  business  administration  standards
 pursuant to 13 CFR part 121 and any amendments thereto. The director may
 issue regulations on the construction of the terms in this definition.
   §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
 ments to subdivision 20 of section 310 of  the  executive  law  made  by
 section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD17400-02-0

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