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Assembly Bill A5011

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to written notice to unsuccessful minority- or women-owned business enterprise bidders on state contracts

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2025-A5011 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2879, Pub Auth L; amd §143, Ec Dev L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10089
2019-2020: A1481
2021-2022: A5536
2023-2024: A3910

2025-A5011 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires public corporations and agencies to provide written notice to each minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on a contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining the contract.

2025-A5011 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5011
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, WILLIAMS, GIBBS -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commis-
   sions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and the economic  development
   law,  in  relation  to  requiring  public corporations and agencies to
   provide written notice  to  each  minority-  or  women-owned  business
   enterprise  that  unsuccessfully  bid  on  a contract of the reason or
   reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining  the
   contract
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Clause IV of subparagraph (H) of paragraph (j) of  subdivi-
 sion  3 of section 2879 of the public authorities law, as added by chap-
 ter 174 of the laws of 2010, is amended and a new  subparagraph  (I)  is
 added to read as follows:
   IV.  consult  the  most  recent  disparity  study  pursuant to article
 fifteen-A of the executive law[.]; AND
   (I) A REQUIREMENT THAT, WITHIN  THIRTY  DAYS  OF  THE  AWARDING  OF  A
 CONTRACT,  THE  CORPORATION AWARDING THE CONTRACT PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE
 TO EACH MINORITY- OR WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE THAT UNSUCCESSFULLY
 BID ON THE CONTRACT OF THE REASON OR REASONS WHY THE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
 WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING THE CONTRACT.
   § 2. Section 143 of the economic development law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6. WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF THE AWARDING OF A CONTRACT, THE AGENCY AWARD-
 ING  THE  CONTRACT  SHALL  PROVIDE  WRITTEN  NOTICE TO EACH MINORITY- OR
 WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE THAT UNSUCCESSFULLY BID ON THE  CONTRACT
 OF THE REASON OR REASONS WHY THE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN
 OBTAINING THE CONTRACT.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04935-01-5

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