Bill Text: NY S01873 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1873 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 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to changing the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enter- prise may have during a declared state disaster emergency 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, not to exceed three hundred 10 employees who work thirty or more hours per week over the period of 11 fifty-two weeks for a total of one thousand five hundred sixty hours 12 worked, taking into consideration factors which include, but are not 13 limited to, federal small business administration standards pursuant to 14 13 CFR part 121 and any amendments thereto. The director may issue regu- 15 lations on the construction of the terms in this definition. For 16 purposes of this subdivision, an employee may break from employment for 17 up to thirteen weeks without the fifty-two week lookback period reset- 18 ting. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 20 ments to subdivision 20 of section 310 of the executive 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. LBD06521-01-3