Bill Text: NY A01542 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to outreach programming for minority and women-owned business enterprises; makes an appropriation therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A01542 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01542-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1542
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BICHOTTE,  WRIGHT, SEAWRIGHT, BLAKE, MOSLEY,
          SOLAGES, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, JEAN-PIERRE, HYNDMAN, COOK, WALKER, DAVILA
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DINOWITZ, SIMON  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        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 minori-
    17  ties" means minority groups with a state contract participation percent-
    18  age of less than twenty percent of the total  minority  and  women-owned
    19  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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  in the general fund to the credit of the  state  purposes  account,  not
     2  otherwise  appropriated, for the purposes of carrying out the provisions
     3  of section one of this act. Such sum shall be payable on the  audit  and
     4  warrant  of  the  state comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by
     5  the division of minority and women's business development, or  its  duly
     6  designated  representative in the manner provided by law. No expenditure
     7  shall be made from this appropriation until a certificate of approval of
     8  availability shall have been issued by the director of  the  budget  and
     9  filed  with the state comptroller and a copy filed with the chair of the
    10  senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly  ways  and  means
    11  committee.  Such  certificate  may  be  amended from time to time by the
    12  director of the budget and a copy of each such amendment shall be  filed
    13  with  the  state  comptroller, the chair of the senate finance committee
    14  and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    16  the  amendments  to section 311 of the executive law made by section one
    17  of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be
    18  deemed to expire therewith.