Bill Text: NY A03894 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises, to participate in state contracts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A03894 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03894-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3894

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, SEAWRIGHT, JEAN-PIERRE, HYND-
          MAN, COOK, WALKER, DAVILA -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the state finance law, in relation to requiring that
          public contracts be divided by size  into  large,  medium,  small  and
          micro  contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small
          businesses to participate in state contracts

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph c of subdivision 10 of section 163 of the state
     2  finance law, as amended by chapter 95 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    c. The commissioner or state agency may elect to award a  contract  to
     5  one  or more responsive and responsible offerers provided, however, that
     6  the basis for the selection among multiple  contracts  at  the  time  of
     7  purchase  shall  be  the  most  practical and economical alternative and
     8  shall be in the best interests of the state, and further  provided  that
     9  the  requirements  set  forth herein shall not preclude the commissioner
    10  from  establishing  multiple  award  contracts  for  reasons   including
    11  increased  opportunities  for  small  businesses to participate in state
    12  contracts. To the extent feasible,  the  commissioner  or  state  agency
    13  shall endeavor to divide contracts by size into large, medium, small and
    14  micro  contracts  for  the purpose of increasing opportunities for small
    15  businesses, including minority-owned  business  enterprises  and  women-
    16  owned  business  enterprises  as defined in section three hundred ten of
    17  the executive law, to participate in state contracts.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to paragraph c
    20  of  subdivision  10  of  section  163  of  the state finance law made by
    21  section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section  and
    22  shall be deemed repealed therewith.

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