Bill Text: NY S07371 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the director of the division of minority and women's business development and the mayor of the city of New York to enter into a memorandum of understanding to allow reciprocity between the state and New York City for businesses that are certified as minority and women-owned business enterprises.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-05 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7646 [S07371 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07371-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7371

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 22, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  SANDERS  --  (at request of the NYC Small Business
          Services) -- 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 reciprocal minority
          and women-owned business enterprise certification

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2-a  of  section 314 of the executive law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
     3    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,  the  director  and  a
     4  city  with a population greater than one million persons, acting through
     5  its mayor, may enter into a memorandum of understanding setting forth  a
     6  procedure through which: (i) such city shall accept an applicant's state
     7  certification  verification  in  lieu  of  requiring  such  applicant to
     8  complete such city's process for certification as a minority  or  women-
     9  owned  business  enterprise  or meet the certification standards of such
    10  city's minority and women-owned business enterprise  program;  and  (ii)
    11  the  office  shall accept an applicant's city certification verification
    12  in lieu of requiring an applicant to complete the  process  for  certif-
    13  ication  as  a  minority  or women-owned business enterprise or meet the
    14  applicable certification standards set forth in this article;  provided,
    15  however,  that  such memorandum of understanding may include one or more
    16  exceptions in circumstances where the director and such mayor  determine
    17  that  such exceptions would be in the best interests of both such city's
    18  program and the program established pursuant to this article.    Nothing
    19  in  this paragraph shall be construed to limit the director or such city
    20  from amending their respective processes  or  standards  for  certifying
    21  minority and women-owned business enterprises.
    22    §  2.  This  act  shall  take effect on the two hundred seventieth day
    23  after it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments
    24  to subdivision 2-a of section 314 of the executive law made  by  section

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11217-01-3
        S. 7371                             2

     1  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of article 15-A of the exec-
     2  utive  law  pursuant to chapter 261 of the laws of 1988, as amended, and
     3  shall be deemed repealed therewith.