Bill Text: NY A08645 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the minority and women-owned business enterprise statewide advocate to act as a liaison for organizations for the blind or disabled and veterans workshops in order to assist such organizations and workshops with creating and sustaining employment opportunities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-29 - referred to governmental operations [A08645 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08645-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8645
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 29, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the minority
         and  women-owned  business  enterprise  statewide advocate to act as a
         liaison for the blind, disabled and veterans
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 311-a of the executive law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    3    2-A. THE STATEWIDE ADVOCATE SHALL ACT AS A LIAISON FOR  ANY  ORGANIZA-
    4  TION  FOR  THE  BLIND OR DISABLED OR A VETERANS' WORKSHOP, THAT HAS BEEN
    5  DESIGNATED AS A PREFERRED SOURCE PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED  SIXTY-
    6  TWO  OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW, IN ORDER TO ASSIST SUCH ORGANIZATIONS AND
    7  WORKSHOPS WITH CREATING AND SUSTAINING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR  THE
    8  BLIND,  VISUALLY IMPAIRED, DISABLED AND VETERANS. FURTHER, THE STATEWIDE
    9  ADVOCATE SHALL INFORM, ON A REGULAR BASIS BUT NOT  LESS  THAN  ONCE  PER
   10  CALENDAR  YEAR, STATE AGENCIES, POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS, AND PUBLIC BENE-
   11  FIT CORPORATIONS OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF  ARTICLE  ELEVEN  OF  THE  STATE
   12  FINANCE  LAW  AS  IT RELATES TO THE PURCHASE OF SERVICES AND COMMODITIES
   13  FROM SUCH ORGANIZATIONS.
   14    S 2.  This act shall take effect immediately provided that the  amend-
   15  ments  to section 311-a of the executive law made by section one of this
   16  act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be  deemed
   17  to expire therewith.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13165-02-3