Authorizes the director of the division of minority and women's business development and the county executive of counties to enter into a memorandum of understanding to allow reciprocity between the state and such county for businesses that are certified as minority and women-owned business enterprises.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8353
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to reciprocal minority
and women-owned business enterprise certification
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 314 of the executive law is
amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
(D) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, THE DIRECTOR AND ANY
COUNTY, ACTING THROUGH ITS COUNTY EXECUTIVE, MAY ENTER INTO A MEMORANDUM
OF UNDERSTANDING SETTING FORTH A PROCEDURE THROUGH WHICH: (I) SUCH COUN-
TY SHALL ACCEPT AN APPLICANT'S STATE CERTIFICATION VERIFICATION IN LIEU
OF REQUIRING SUCH APPLICANT TO COMPLETE SUCH COUNTY'S PROCESS FOR
CERTIFICATION AS A MINORITY OR WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE OR MEET
THE CERTIFICATION STANDARDS OF SUCH COUNTY'S MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED
BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PROGRAM; AND (II) THE OFFICE SHALL ACCEPT AN APPLI-
CANT'S COUNTY CERTIFICATION VERIFICATION IN LIEU OF REQUIRING AN APPLI-
CANT TO COMPLETE THE PROCESS FOR CERTIFICATION AS A MINORITY OR WOMEN-
OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE OR MEET THE APPLICABLE CERTIFICATION STANDARDS
SET FORTH IN THIS ARTICLE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH MEMORANDUM OF
UNDERSTANDING MAY INCLUDE ONE OR MORE EXCEPTIONS IN CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE
THE DIRECTOR AND SUCH COUNTY EXECUTIVE DETERMINE THAT SUCH EXCEPTIONS
WOULD BE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF BOTH SUCH COUNTY'S PROGRAM AND THE
PROGRAM ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE. NOTHING IN THIS PARAGRAPH
SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO LIMIT THE DIRECTOR OR SUCH COUNTY FROM AMENDING
THEIR RESPECTIVE PROCESSES OR STANDARDS FOR CERTIFYING MINORITY AND
WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the two hundred seventieth day
after it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments
to subdivision 2-a of section 314 of the executive law made by section
one of this act shall not affect the repeal of article 15-A of the exec-
utive law pursuant to chapter 261 of the laws of 1988, as amended, and
shall be deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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