Senate Bill S6515

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires reporting on fraud regarding minority and women-owned business enterprises

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Procurement And Contracts Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S6515 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Procurement And Contracts
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §311, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9071
2023-2024: S1768

2025-S6515 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a separate section in the annual report of the director of the division of minority and women's business development detailing every instance of an entity fraudulently representing itself as a minority and women-owned business enterprise when it was not.

2025-S6515 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6515 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6515
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 17, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 requiring reporting on
   fraud regarding minority 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. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section 311 of the execu-
 tive  law,  as  amended by chapter 55 of the laws of 1992, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (e) on January first of each year  report  to  the  governor  and  the
 chairpersons  of  the senate finance and assembly ways and means commit-
 tees on the level  of  minority  and  women-owned  business  enterprises
 participating  in  each agency's contracts for goods and services and on
 activities of the office  and  effort  by  each  contracting  agency  to
 promote  employment  of minority group members and women, and to promote
 and increase participation by certified businesses with respect to state
 contracts and subcontracts so as to facilitate the award of a fair share
 of state contracts to such businesses. The comptroller shall assist  the
 division  in  collecting  information  on the participation of certified
 business for each contracting agency.  Such  report  may  recommend  new
 activities and programs to effectuate the purposes of this article. SUCH
 REPORT  SHALL  INCLUDE A SEPARATE SECTION DETAILING EVERY INSTANCE OF AN
 ENTITY FRAUDULENTLY REPRESENTING ITSELF AS A  MINORITY  AND  WOMEN-OWNED
 BUSINESS ENTERPRISE WHEN IT WAS NOT;
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately, provided, however that
 the amendments to section 311 of the executive law made by  section  one
 of  this  act  shall  not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
 deemed repealed therewith.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10974-01-5

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