Bill Text: NY S01803 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the division of veterans' services to establish a searchable database of veteran-owned businesses; requires the use of a special mark to indicate service-disabled veteran-owned businesses.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Vetoed) 2023-12-08 - VETOED MEMO.99 [S01803 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1803

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the executive law and the  veterans'  services  law,  in
          relation  to establishing a searchable database of veteran-owned busi-
          nesses

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

     1    Section 1. Section 353 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 27 to read as follows:
     3    27.  With the aid and assistance of the office of general services, to
     4  develop and make available to state agencies and the public a  directory
     5  of veteran-owned business enterprises which shall, wherever practicable,
     6  be  divided  into  categories  of  labor, services, supplies, equipment,
     7  materials and recognized construction trades and  which  shall  indicate
     8  areas  or locations of the state where such enterprises are available to
     9  perform services.  Such directory shall use an asterisk or other special
    10  mark  to  denote  any  veteran-owned  business  enterprises  which   are
    11  service-disabled  veteran-owned  business  enterprises.   Such directory
    12  shall be posted on the office of general services' website.  The  office
    13  of  general services shall also use this information to create an inter-
    14  net based, searchable centralized state  database  to  promote  veteran-
    15  owned business enterprises to the public and shall post such database on
    16  the  department of labor's website. The office of general services shall
    17  conduct outreach to notify veteran-owned business  enterprises  of  such
    18  directory  and  database and to provide registration information to such
    19  business enterprises for inclusion in the directory and database.
    20    § 2.  Section 4 of the veterans' services law is amended by  adding  a
    21  new subdivision 38 to read as follows:
    22    38.  With the aid and assistance of the office of general services, to
    23  develop and make available to state agencies and the public a  directory

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04584-01-3
        S. 1803                             2

     1  of veteran-owned business enterprises which shall, wherever practicable,
     2  be  divided  into  categories  of  labor, services, supplies, equipment,
     3  materials and recognized construction trades and  which  shall  indicate
     4  areas  or locations of the state where such enterprises are available to
     5  perform services.  Such directory shall use an asterisk or other special
     6  mark  to  denote  any  veteran-owned  business  enterprises  which   are
     7  service-disabled  veteran-owned  business  enterprises.   Such directory
     8  shall be posted on the office of general services' website.  The  office
     9  of  general services shall also use this information to create an inter-
    10  net based, searchable centralized state  database  to  promote  veteran-
    11  owned business enterprises to the public and shall post such database on
    12  the  department of labor's website. The office of general services shall
    13  conduct outreach to notify veteran-owned business  enterprises  of  such
    14  directory  and  database and to provide registration information to such
    15  business enterprises for inclusion in the directory and database.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
    17  the  amendments  to section 353 of the executive law made by section one
    18  of this act shall be subject to the repeal of such section  pursuant  to
    19  section 1 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, as amended, when
    20  upon  such  date  the  provisions  of section two of this act shall take
    21  effect.