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Assembly Bill A7121A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires an annual report on state agency utilization of minority and women-owned business enterprises

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2025-A7121 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §313-b, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A9889
2019-2020: A2511
2021-2022: A6369
2023-2024: A3895

2025-A7121 - Summary

Requires an annual report on state agency utilization of minority and women-owned business enterprises detailing expenditure totals and percentages and whether agency MWBE participation goals were achieved.

2025-A7121 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7121
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, McDONALD, GIBBS, DAVILA --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  requiring  the  state
   comptroller to prepare and release an annual report grading each state
   agency  on  its spending with minority and women-owned business enter-
   prises; and providing for the repeal of such provisions  upon  expira-
   tion thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  163-b
 to read as follows:
   §  163-B.  M/WBE COMPLIANCE REPORT. 1. BY JUNE FIRST OF EACH YEAR, THE
 OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER SHALL PREPARE AND RELEASE ON  ITS  WEBSITE  AN
 ANNUAL  REPORT THAT ISSUES LETTER GRADES TO EACH STATE AGENCY AND TO THE
 COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE BASED ON THE AGENCY'S OR OFFICE'S LEVEL OF  SUCCESS
 IN  CONTRACT SPENDING WITH MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES
 PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FIFTEEN-A OF THIS CHAPTER. THE GRADES SHALL BE BASED
 ON M/WBE PARTICIPATION GOALS FOR STATE AGENCIES  ACROSS  VARIOUS  INDUS-
 TRIES  AS  PROVIDED  IN  SECTION THREE HUNDRED THIRTEEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
 SUCH REPORT SHALL ASSIGN LETTER GRADES TO ALL STATE AGENCIES AND TO  THE
 COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE AS FOLLOWS:
   A - GREAT STANDING;
   B - GOOD STANDING;
   C - AVERAGE, BUT COULD USE IMPROVEMENT;
   D - BELOW AVERAGE; AND
   F - UNACCEPTABLE.
   2.  THE REPORT SHALL MEASURE THE ACTUAL SPENDING OF EACH AGENCY IN THE
 PRIOR FISCAL YEAR, AND NOT THE REGISTERED VALUE OF CONTRACTS, WHICH  MAY
 OR MAY NOT HAVE RESULTED IN ACTUAL SPENDING OR WHICH COULD SPAN MULTIPLE
 YEARS. THE REPORT SHALL ASSIGN INDIVIDUAL GRADES TO EACH AGENCY'S SPEND-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10437-01-5
 A. 7121                             2
              

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2025-A7121A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §313-b, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A9889
2019-2020: A2511
2021-2022: A6369
2023-2024: A3895

2025-A7121A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires an annual report on state agency utilization of minority and women-owned business enterprises detailing expenditure totals and percentages and whether agency MWBE participation goals were achieved.

2025-A7121A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7121--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, McDONALD, GIBBS, DAVILA --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations  --
   recommitted  to the Committee on Governmental Operations in accordance
   with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the division
   of minority and women's business development to prepare and release an
   annual  report  on  state  agency  utilization;  and providing for the
   repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 313-b
 to read as follows:
   § 313-B. ANNUAL MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE  UTILIZA-
 TION  REPORT.  1. THE DIVISION OF MINORITY AND WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOP-
 MENT SHALL PREPARE AND RELEASE ON ITS WEBSITE AN ANNUAL REPORT  CONCERN-
 ING  STATE  AGENCY  UTILIZATION  OF  MINORITY  AND  WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS
 ENTERPRISES PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE. THE REPORT SHALL BE BASED ON ACTU-
 AL PAYMENTS OR EXPENDITURES, TO THE EXTENT SUCH DATA IS  AVAILABLE,  AND
 SHALL  MEASURE  EACH  AGENCY'S  UTILIZATION  OF  CERTIFIED  MINORITY AND
 WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AGAINST APPLICABLE PARTICIPATION  GOALS
 ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE.
   2.  THE REPORT REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION MAY INCLUDE AGGREGATE INFORMA-
 TION CONCERNING  UTILIZATION  BY  MINORITY-OWNED  BUSINESS  ENTERPRISES,
 WOMEN-OWNED  BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, AND MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS
 ENTERPRISES ACROSS MAJOR INDUSTRY CATEGORIES, PROVIDED THAT SUCH  INFOR-
 MATION  SHALL  BE  REPORTED IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH THIS ARTICLE AND
 ANY APPLICABLE STATE OR FEDERAL LAW.
   3. FOR EACH AGENCY, THE REPORT SHALL STATE THE FOLLOWING:
   (A) THE TOTAL DOLLAR AMOUNT OF THE AGENCY'S M/WBE-ELIGIBLE SPENDING;
   (B) THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE AGENCY'S ACTUAL M/WBE SPENDING;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10437-02-6
              

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