Bill Text: NY A10517 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows New York City agencies to make procurements of goods, services and construction not exceeding one million five hundred thousand dollars from special veteran emerging business enterprises without a formal competitive process.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-30 - referred to cities [A10517 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10517-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10517

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 30, 2024
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        Introduced   by   COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at  request  of  M.  of  A.
          Bichotte Hermelyn) -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Cities

        AN  ACT to amend the New York city charter, in relation to opportunities
          for special veteran emerging business enterprises

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs 1 and 3 of subdivision i of section 311 of the
     2  New York city charter, paragraph 1 as amended by chapter 110 of the laws
     3  of 2024 and paragraph 3 as amended by chapter 569 of the laws  of  2022,
     4  are amended to read as follows:
     5    1.  agencies may make procurements of goods, services and construction
     6  for amounts not exceeding one million five hundred thousand dollars from
     7  businesses certified as minority  or  women-owned  business  enterprises
     8  pursuant  to  section  thirteen  hundred  four  of  the charter and from
     9  special veteran emerging business enterprises without a  formal  compet-
    10  itive process.
    11    3.  the  rule  or rules promulgated to implement paragraph one of this
    12  subdivision shall provide that the city shall, commencing on  the  first
    13  of  October  of  the  first full calendar year following the adoption of
    14  such rule or rules, submit an annual report  to  the  governor  and  the
    15  state legislature of the total number and total dollar value of procure-
    16  ments  of goods and services for amounts not exceeding the dollar amount
    17  threshold for making procurements without a formal  competitive  process
    18  as  established  by  rule  pursuant to paragraph one of this subdivision
    19  from:
    20    (i) businesses certified as minority or  women-owned  business  enter-
    21  prises pursuant to section thirteen hundred four of the charter;
    22    (ii) special veteran emerging business enterprises;
    23    (iii) all other businesses; and
    24    [(iii)]  (iv)  information about the number of businesses certified as
    25  minority or women-owned business enterprises pursuant to  section  thir-
    26  teen  hundred  four of this charter or special veteran emerging business

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  enterprises that are able to perform the specific type and scale of work
     2  involved in each procurement.
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  i  of  section 311 of the New York city charter is
     4  amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
     5    4. For purposes of this subdivision, the term "special veteran  emerg-
     6  ing business enterprise" means a business enterprise that is a certified
     7  service-disabled  veteran-owned business enterprise as defined in subdi-
     8  vision one of section forty of the veterans' services law  and  that  is
     9  certified  as  an emerging business enterprise pursuant to section thir-
    10  teen hundred four of the charter.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.