Bill Text: NY S05338 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
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 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-13 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [S05338 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05338-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5338--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 26, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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. LBD00305-03-0