Bill Text: NY S03263 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public corporations and agencies to provide notice to each minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on a contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining the contract.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-02-01 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [S03263 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03263-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3263

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Author-
          ities and Commissions

        AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law and the economic development
          law, in relation to requiring  public  corporations  and  agencies  to
          provide  notice  to  each minority- or women-owned business enterprise
          that unsuccessfully bid on a contract of the reason or reasons why the
          business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining the contract

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

     1    Section  1. Clause IV of subparagraph (H) of paragraph (j) of subdivi-
     2  sion 3 of section 2879 of the public authorities law, as added by  chap-
     3  ter  174  of  the laws of 2010, is amended and a new subparagraph (I) is
     4  added to read as follows:
     5    IV. consult the  most  recent  disparity  study  pursuant  to  article
     6  fifteen-A of the executive law[.]; and
     7    (I)  A  requirement  that,  within  thirty  days  of the awarding of a
     8  contract, the corporation awarding the contract provide notice  to  each
     9  minority-  or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on
    10  the contract of the reason or reasons why the  business  enterprise  was
    11  unsuccessful in obtaining the contract.
    12    §  2. Section 143 of the economic development law is amended by adding
    13  a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    14    6. Within thirty days of the awarding of a contract, the agency award-
    15  ing the contract shall provide notice to each minority-  or  women-owned
    16  business  enterprise  that  unsuccessfully  bid  on  the contract of the
    17  reason or reasons  why  the  business  enterprise  was  unsuccessful  in
    18  obtaining the contract.
    19    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    20  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07279-01-1