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Senate Bill S6374

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of small business for minority group members and women with respect to state contracts

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2025-S6374 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5687
Current Committee:
Senate Procurement And Contracts
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §310, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S6609, A7099

2025-S6374 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of persons from three hundred to five hundred to be considered a small business for the purposes of MWBE.

2025-S6374 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6374 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6374
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 12, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- 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  the  definition  of
   small  business  for  minority group members and women with respect to
   state contracts

   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]  FIVE  hundred,
 except during a declared state disaster emergency as defined pursuant to
 section twenty-eight of this chapter, not to exceed [three] FIVE 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. The director may issue regu-
 lations  on  the  construction  of  the  terms  in  this definition. For
 purposes of this subdivision, an employee may break from employment  for
 up  to  thirteen weeks without the fifty-two week lookback period reset-
 ting.
   § 2. This act shall take effect  immediately;  provided  however,  the
 amendments  to  article 15-A of the executive law made by section one of
 this act shall not affect the repeal of such article and shall be deemed
 repealed therewith.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06220-02-5

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