Bill Text: NJ A3936 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Requires Chief Diversity Officer in Department of Treasury to develop and implement programs to increase utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - Reported as an Assembly Committee Substitute and Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A3936 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3936-Comm_Sub.html

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ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

ASSEMBLY, No. 3936

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

  ADOPTED MAY 13, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ANNETTE QUIJANO

District 20 (Union)

Assemblywoman  SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex and Hudson)

Assemblyman  GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ

District 33 (Hudson)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Reynolds-Jackson

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires Chief Diversity Officer in Department of Treasury to develop and implement programs to increase utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Substitute as adopted by the Assembly Community Development and Women's Affairs Committee.

  

 

 

An Act concerning minority-owned and women-owned businesses and amending P.L.2017, c.95.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Section 1 of P.L.2017, c.95 (C.52:32-18.1) is amended to read as follows:

     1.    There is established in the Division of Purchase and Property in the State Department of the Treasury a Chief Diversity Officer.  It shall be the duty of the Chief Diversity Officer to [monitor]:

     a.     Monitor the State's public contracting process for the purpose of compiling information on the awarding of contracts to minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises, the total value of all contracts and the percentage of the value of those contracts awarded to minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises ; and 

     b.    Develop and implement programs and initiatives to increase the utilization of minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises in the State.

(cf: P.L.2017, c.95, s.1)

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.