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Senate Bill S8826

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise

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2025-S8826 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9451
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §314, Exec L (as proposed in S.596 & A.2296)
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A1621

2025-S8826 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise if there is no change in the ownership or capital contribution relied upon for certification of the enterprise and no material change in the nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval of the previous minority and women-owned business enterprise certification.

2025-S8826 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8826 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8826
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing a rebuttable
   presumption relating to recertification as a minority and  women-owned
   business enterprise
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section  314  of  the  executive  law,  as
 amended  by  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2025 amending the executive law
 relating to providing a rebuttable  presumption  relating  to  recertif-
 ication  as  a minority and women-owned business enterprise, as proposed
 in legislative bills numbers S. 596 and A. 2296, is amended to  read  as
 follows:
   5.  (a)  With  the  exception  of  provisional  MWBE certification, as
 provided for in subdivision twenty-three of section three hundred ten of
 this article, all minority and women-owned business  enterprise  certif-
 ications shall be valid for a period of five years.
   (b)  [Upon] WITHIN EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF the expiration of a minority and
 women-owned business enterprise certification and the  submission  of  a
 new  AND  COMPLETED  application  for  minority and women-owned business
 enterprise [recertification] CERTIFICATION, if there is no change in the
 ownership OR CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION RELIED UPON FOR CERTIFICATION  of  the
 enterprise  and  no  material  change in the nature or management of the
 enterprise from the time of approval of a previous  [original]  minority
 and  women-owned  business  enterprise  certification  that was approved
 within the previous [ten] SIX years AND SIX MONTHS, if such  application
 is  compliant  with  [21  NYCRR  9606] 5 NYCRR 144 then there shall be a
 rebuttable presumption that the previous minority-owned business  enter-
 prise  satisfies the requirements of paragraphs (a)[,] AND (b) [and (c)]
 of subdivision seven of section three hundred ten of  this  article  and
 that the previous women-owned business enterprise satisfies the require-
 ments  of  paragraphs (a)[,] AND (b) [and (c)] of subdivision fifteen of
 section three hundred ten of this article.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01747-02-6

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