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Senate Bill S6006

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Clarifies the eligibility of an employment agency for status as a small business for certain programs

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2025-S6006 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §310, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S3253

2025-S6006 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies the eligibility of an employment agency for status as a small business for division of minority and women's business development programs by changing the basis from number of employees to annual receipts.

2025-S6006 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6006 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6006
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BASKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to clarifying the  eligi-
   bility  of  an  employment  agency  for status as a small business for
   certain programs

   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
 amended by chapter 44 of the  laws  of  2024,  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,  except
 during  a  declared  state  disaster  emergency  as  defined pursuant to
 section twenty-eight of  this  chapter,  not  to  exceed  three  hundred
 employees  who  work  thirty  or  more hours per week over the period of
 fifty-two weeks for a total of one thousand  five  hundred  sixty  hours
 worked,  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. PROVIDED HOWEVER, WHEN
 DETERMINING THE ELIGIBILITY OF  AN  EMPLOYMENT  AGENCY,  AS  DEFINED  IN
 SECTION  ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW, AS A SMALL
 BUSINESS PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION THERE SHALL BE NO  RESTRICTION  ON
 THE  NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF SUCH EMPLOYMENT AGENCY. AN EMPLOYMENT AGENCY
 SHALL BE CONSIDERED A SMALL BUSINESS IF  THE  ANNUAL  RECEIPTS  OF  SUCH
 EMPLOYMENT  AGENCY  CALCULATED  PURSUANT  TO  THE  PROVISIONS  OF 13 CFR
 121.104 AND  ANY  AMENDMENTS  THERETO,  ARE  LESS  THAN  THIRTY  MILLION
 DOLLARS.  The  director may issue regulations on the construction of the
 terms in this definition. For purposes of this subdivision, an  employee
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09696-01-5

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