Bill Text: NY S07385 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to outreach programming for minority and women-owned business enterprises; makes an appropriation therefor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-25 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S07385 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07385-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7385 IN SENATE April 25, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to outreach programming for minority and women-owned business enterprises; and making an appropriation therefor The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (c) of subdivision 3 of section 311 of 2 the executive law, as added by chapter 261 of the laws of 1988, are 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) to encourage and assist contracting agencies in their efforts to 5 increase participation by minority and women-owned business enterprises 6 on state contracts and subcontracts so as to facilitate the award of a 7 fair share of such contracts to them and to provide on the division's 8 website a list of each contracting agency's minority and women-owned 9 business enterprises certification outreach seminars, contacts, 10 resources, events and opportunities; 11 (c) to conduct educational outreach programs to encourage the certif- 12 ication of minority and women-owned business enterprises, as defined by 13 subdivisions seven and fifteen of section three hundred ten of this 14 article, and to promote such program to groups of minorities, with an 15 emphasis on under-represented minorities, consistent with the purposes 16 of this article[;]. As used in this paragraph, "under-represented minor- 17 ities" means minority groups with a state contract participation 18 percentage of less than twenty percent of the total minority and women- 19 owned business enterprise participation, such as blacks and Hispanics. 20 § 2. The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000), or so much thereof 21 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the division of minority 22 and women's business development from any moneys in the state treasury 23 in the general fund to the credit of the state purposes account, not 24 otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of carrying out the provisions 25 of section one of this act. Such sum shall be payable on the audit and 26 warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by 27 the division of minority and women's business development, or its duly EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13421-06-6S. 7385 2 1 designated representative in the manner provided by law. No expenditure 2 shall be made from this appropriation until a certificate of approval of 3 availability shall have been issued by the director of the budget and 4 filed with the state comptroller and a copy filed with the chair of the 5 senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means 6 committee. Such certificate may be amended from time to time by the 7 director of the budget and a copy of each such amendment shall be filed 8 with the state comptroller, the chair of the senate finance committee 9 and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 11 the amendments to section 311 of the executive law made by section one 12 of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be 13 deemed to expire therewith.
