Bill Text: NY S09848 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows New York City agencies to make procurements of goods, services and construction not exceeding one million five hundred thousand dollars from special veteran emerging business enterprises without a formal competitive process.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-04 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09848 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09848-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9848

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 4, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- (at request of the Department of Veterans'
          Services)  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
          committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the New York city charter, in relation to  opportunities
          for special veteran emerging business enterprises

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs 1 and 3 of subdivision i of section 311  of  the
     2  New York city charter, paragraph 1 as amended by chapter 110 of the laws
     3  of  2024  and paragraph 3 as amended by chapter 569 of the laws of 2022,
     4  are amended to read as follows:
     5    1. agencies may make procurements of goods, services and  construction
     6  for amounts not exceeding one million five hundred thousand dollars from
     7  businesses  certified  as  minority  or women-owned business enterprises
     8  pursuant to section thirteen  hundred  four  of  the  charter  and  from
     9  special  veteran  emerging business enterprises without a formal compet-
    10  itive process.
    11    3. the rule or rules promulgated to implement paragraph  one  of  this
    12  subdivision  shall  provide that the city shall, commencing on the first
    13  of October of the first full calendar year  following  the  adoption  of
    14  such  rule  or  rules,  submit  an annual report to the governor and the
    15  state legislature of the total number and total dollar value of procure-
    16  ments of goods and services for amounts not exceeding the dollar  amount
    17  threshold  for  making procurements without a formal competitive process
    18  as established by rule pursuant to paragraph  one  of  this  subdivision
    19  from:
    20    (i)  businesses  certified  as minority or women-owned business enter-
    21  prises pursuant to section thirteen hundred four of the charter;
    22    (ii) special veteran emerging business enterprises;
    23    (iii) all other businesses; and
    24    [(iii)] (iv) information about the number of businesses  certified  as
    25  minority  or  women-owned business enterprises pursuant to section thir-
    26  teen hundred four of this charter or special veteran  emerging  business

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  enterprises that are able to perform the specific type and scale of work
     2  involved in each procurement.
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  i  of  section 311 of the New York city charter is
     4  amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
     5    4. For purposes of this subdivision, the term "special veteran  emerg-
     6  ing business enterprise" means a business enterprise that is a certified
     7  service-disabled  veteran-owned business enterprise as defined in subdi-
     8  vision one of section forty of the veterans' services law  and  that  is
     9  certified  as  an emerging business enterprise pursuant to section thir-
    10  teen hundred four of the charter.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.