Bill Text: NY S08975 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to further certification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise if there is no change in the ownership of the enterprise and no material change in the nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval of the previous minority and women-owned business enterprise certification.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-14 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08975 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08975-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8975

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 14, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing a rebuttable
          presumption relating to certification as a  minority  and  women-owned
          business enterprise

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section  314  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  96  of  the  laws  of  2019, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    5. (a) With  the  exception  of  provisional  MWBE  certification,  as
     5  provided for in subdivision twenty-three of section three hundred ten of
     6  this  article,  all minority and women-owned business enterprise certif-
     7  ications shall be valid for a period of five years.
     8    (b) Upon the expiration of a minority and women-owned business  enter-
     9  prise  certification and the submission of a new application for further
    10  minority and women-owned business enterprise certification, if there  is
    11  no  change  in the ownership of the enterprise and no material change in
    12  the nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval  of
    13  the previous minority and women-owned business enterprise certification,
    14  there  shall  be  a rebuttable presumption that the enterprise satisfies
    15  the requirements of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of  subdivision  fifteen
    16  of section three hundred ten of this article.
    17    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    18  the date upon which it shall have become a law and shall apply to appli-
    19  cations submitted by a business  enterprise  for  further  minority  and
    20  women-owned  business  enterprise  certification  submitted on and after
    21  such effective date; provided, however,  that  the  amendments  made  to
    22  section  314  of  the executive law made  by section 1 of this act shall
    23  not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed ther-
    24  ewith.


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