Bill Text: NY A09886 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9886 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes the division of minority and women's business development to accept the DD Form 214 issued by the United States department of defense upon retirement, separation, or discharge from active duty in the armed forces of the United States as proof of the race or ethnicity of an applicant and of certain personal information for purposes of certification of the applicant's business as a minority-owned business.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - signed chap.409 [A09886 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09886-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9886
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 16, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to authorizing the divi-
          sion of minority and women's business development  to  accept  the  DD
          Form  214  issued  by  the  United  States  department of defense upon
          retirement, separation, or discharge from active  duty  in  the  armed
          forces  of  the  United  States  as proof of the race or ethnicity and
          certain personal information of an applicant for purposes  of  certif-
          ication of the applicant's business as a minority-owned business
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 314 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 2-b to read as follows:
     3    2-b. The director shall establish a procedure  enabling  an  applicant
     4  who was a military service member to prove his or her race or ethnicity,
     5  date  of  birth, place of birth and verification of address for purposes
     6  of certification of the applicant's business as a  minority-owned  busi-
     7  ness  by  submission  of  the DD Form 214 issued to the applicant by the
     8  United States department of defense upon  such  applicant's  retirement,
     9  separation,  or  discharge  from  active duty in the armed forces of the
    10  United States, provided the DD Form 214  contains such  information,  in
    11  lieu  of  requiring  the applicant to otherwise prove his or her race or
    12  ethnicity. The director shall promulgate rules and  regulations  to  set
    13  forth criteria for the  acceptance of the DD Form 214 by the office.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to section 314
    16  of the executive law made by section one of this act  shall  not  affect
    17  the expiration of such section and shall be deemed expired therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14733-02-8