Bill Text: NY A01481 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1481 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A01481 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01481-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1481
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        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 5 to read as follows:
    14    5. 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.
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