Bill Text: NY S03391 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs contracting state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to increase participation of minority- and women-owned businesses with respect to state contracts and subcontracts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-01 - referred to governmental operations [S03391 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S03391-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3391 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 29, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- 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 directing contracting state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to increase partic- ipation of MWBEs with respect to state contracts and subcontracts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (d-1) of subdivision 3 of section 311 of the 2 executive law, as added by chapter 96 of the laws of 2019, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 (d-1) to require all contracting state agencies to develop a [four-5year] three-year growth plan to determine a means of promoting and 6 increasing participation by minority-owned and women-owned business 7 enterprises with respect to state contracts and subcontracts. Every 8 [four] three years, beginning September fifteenth, two thousand twenty, 9 each contracting state agency shall submit a [four-year] three-year 10 growth plan as part of its annual report to the governor and legislature 11 pursuant to section one hundred sixty-four of this chapter. 12 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 315 of the executive law, as amended by 13 chapter 96 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 14 5. Each agency shall include in its annual report to the governor and 15 legislature pursuant to section one hundred sixty-four of this chapter: 16 (a) its annual goals for contracts with minority-owned and women-owned 17 business enterprises; (b) the number of actual contracts issued to 18 minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises; (c) a summary of 19 all waivers of the requirements of subdivisions six and seven of section 20 three hundred thirteen of this article allowed by the reporting agency 21 during the preceding year, including a description of the basis of the 22 waiver request and the rationale for granting such waiver; (d) whether 23 or not it has been required to prepare a remedial plan, and, if so, the 24 plan and the extent to which the agency has complied with each element EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07098-01-1S. 3391 2 1 of the plan; (e) which expenditures are exempt from participation goals 2 and the rationale for such exemption; and (f) every [four] three years, 3 beginning September fifteenth, two thousand twenty, each agency shall 4 include in such annual report its [four-year] three-year growth plan 5 pursuant to section three hundred eleven of this article. 6 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 7 have become a law; provided, however, the amendments to sections 311 and 8 315 of the executive law made by sections one and two of this act 9 respectively, shall not affect the repeal of such sections and shall be 10 deemed repealed therewith.
