Bill Text: NY S01337 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to contractual relationships with minority-owned and women-owned businesses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S01337 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01337-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1337
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sens. COMRIE, KENNEDY, PERKINS, SANDERS -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Finance
        AN  ACT to amend the state finance law and the general municipal law, in
          relation to contractual relationships with  minority  and  women-owned
          businesses
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.   Section 139-f of the state  finance  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  Any  contractor  who  subcontracts and/or has a joint venture with
     4  minority and women-owned businesses on a public work project  and  prior
     5  to  completion  of  such  project  the contractor ceases its contractual
     6  relationship with any to all minority and women-owned businesses, he  or
     7  she shall report such change in relationship to the public owner of such
     8  project  and  the division of minority and women's business development.
     9  Failure to report within seven calendar days  shall  result  in  a  fine
    10  determined by the director of the division of minority and women's busi-
    11  ness development.
    12    §  2.  Section 106-b of the general municipal law is amended by adding
    13  a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    14    4. Any contractor who subcontracts and/or has  a  joint  venture  with
    15  minority  and  women-owned businesses on a public work project and prior
    16  to completion of such project  the  contractor  ceases  its  contractual
    17  relationship  with any to all minority and women-owned businesses, he or
    18  she shall report such change in relationship to the public owner of such
    19  project and the division of minority and women's  business  development.
    20  Failure  to  report  within  seven  calendar days shall result in a fine
    21  determined by the director of the division of minority and women's busi-
    22  ness development.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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