Bill Text: NY S01873 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or critical need; changes such maximum from three hundred employees to three hundred employees who work thirty or more hours per week over the period of fifty-two weeks for a total of 1,560 hours worked.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-12-08 - APPROVAL MEMO.46 [S01873 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01873-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1873--A Cal. No. 181 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or crit- ical need The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 20 of section 310 of the executive law, as 2 added by chapter 175 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 3 20. "Small business" as used in this section, unless otherwise indi- 4 cated, shall mean a business which has a significant business presence 5 in the state, is independently owned and operated, not dominant in its 6 field and employs, based on its industry, a certain number of persons as 7 determined by the director, but not to exceed three hundred, except 8 during a declared state disaster emergency as defined pursuant to 9 section twenty-eight of this chapter, or when engaging in work related 10 to any other emergency, or critical need not to exceed three hundred 11 employees who work thirty or more hours per week over the period of 12 fifty-two weeks for a total of one thousand five hundred sixty hours 13 worked, taking into consideration factors which include, but are not 14 limited to, federal small business administration standards pursuant to 15 13 CFR part 121 and any amendments thereto. The director may issue regu- 16 lations on the construction of the terms in this definition. For 17 purposes of this subdivision, an employee may break from employment for EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06521-02-3S. 1873--A 2 1 up to thirteen weeks without the fifty-two week lookback period reset- 2 ting. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 4 ments to subdivision 20 of section 310 of the executive law made by 5 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and 6 shall be deemed repealed therewith.