Bill Text: NY S00120 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the director of the division of minority and women's business development to provide for the minority and women-owned business certification of business entities owned by Indian nations or tribes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS [S00120 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00120-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           120

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 directing the director
          of the division  of  minority  and  women's  business  development  to
          provide for the certification of certain business entities owned by an
          Indian  nation  or  tribe for participation in the minority and women-
          owned business enterprise program

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 314 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 2-d to read as follows:
     3    2-d.  The  director shall establish a procedure enabling the office to
     4  approve an application by a business entity that is wholly owned  by  an
     5  Indian  nation or tribe, as defined in section two of the Indian law, in
     6  lieu of requiring the applicant  to  complete  the  state  certification
     7  process.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that the amend-
     9  ments  to  article 15-A of the executive law made by section one of this
    10  act shall not affect the expiration of such  article  and  shall  expire
    11  therewith.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00220-01-3