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Assembly Bill A7087

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires that certain contracts let by the office of general services be reserved for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned businesses enterprises

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2025-A7087 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §139-g, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10199
2019-2020: A2407
2021-2022: A6364
2023-2024: A3887

2025-A7087 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that certain contracts let by the office of general services be reserved for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises.

2025-A7087 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7087
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in  relation  to  requiring  that
   certain  contracts  let  by the office of general services be reserved
   for small businesses, including  minority-owned  business  enterprises
   and women-owned business enterprises
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 139-g of the state finance law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
   (E) REQUIRE THAT MULTI-YEAR CENTRALIZED CONTRACTS LET BY THE OFFICE OF
 GENERAL SERVICES WITH A TOTAL VALUE OF FIVE MILLION DOLLARS OR  LESS  BE
 RESERVED  FOR SMALL BUSINESSES AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-
 ONE OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LAW, INCLUDING  MINORITY-OWNED  BUSINESS
 ENTERPRISES  AND  WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AS DEFINED IN SECTION
 THREE HUNDRED TEN OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10982-01-5

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