Bill Text: NY A01776 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the disclosure and consideration of gender wage disparity in the awarding of state contracts; requires all offerors to provide the percentage of gender wage disparity by job title for all state contracts; requires agencies to compile data received on gender wage disparity and provide data to the office of general services for publication on its website; requires agencies to provide extra credit or weight to offerors with a gender wage disparity of ten percent or less.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A01776 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01776-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1776

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the disclosure and
          consideration of gender  wage  disparity  in  the  awarding  of  state
          contracts

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

     1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  148 to read as follows:
     3    §  148. Disclosure of gender wage disparity data by state contractors.
     4  1. All contract solicitations including but not limited to,  invitations
     5  for bids, requests for proposals, requests for applications and requests
     6  for qualifications for contracts shall require that all offerors seeking
     7  state  contracts  shall disclose the average weekly wage paid to men and
     8  women by job title  or  position.  Such  disclosure  shall  include  the
     9  percentage  of  any gender wage disparity within each job title or posi-
    10  tion.
    11    2. Prior to May thirty-first  of  each  year,  each  state  agency  in
    12  receipt  of the information required pursuant to subdivision one of this
    13  section shall  be  responsible  for  providing  the  office  of  general
    14  services  with  the  compiled  data  for  every  offeror seeking a state
    15  contract, whether or not such offeror was awarded the contract, for  the
    16  prior  calendar  year.  The office of general services shall compile and
    17  aggregate the data received by agencies pursuant to subdivision  one  of
    18  this  section  and  shall  provide data on the percentage of gender wage
    19  disparity by job title or position on its website.
    20    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 163-c to
    21  read as follows:
    22    § 163-c. Consideration of gender  wage  disparity  in  procurement  of
    23  services  and  commodities.  In making an award of contracts, as part of
    24  the scoring of offers, a state agency shall  consider  the  gender  wage

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  disparity  disclosure  provided  pursuant  to section one hundred forty-
     2  eight of this chapter. Offerors with a  gender  wage  disparity  of  ten
     3  percent  or  less  shall be given extra credit in scoring. The amount or
     4  weight  of  such credit shall be determined by the state agency awarding
     5  the contract.
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     7  have  become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
     8  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
     9  this  act  on  its effective date are authorized and directed to be made
    10  and completed on or before such effective date.