Bill Text: NY S05338 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


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 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-13 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [S05338 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05338-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5338--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 26, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and  Commissions  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee on Corporations,
          Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Senate Rule 6,  sec.  8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        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 6 to read as follows:
    14    6. 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.
                                                                   LBD00305-03-0
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