Bill Text: NY A02407 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that certain contracts let by the office of general services be reserved for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A02407 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02407-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2407
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the state finance law, in relation to requiring that
          certain contracts let by the office of general  services  be  reserved
          for  small  businesses,  including minority-owned business enterprises
          and women-owned business enterprises
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 139-g of the state finance law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e) require that multi-year centralized contracts let by the office of
     4  general  services  with a total value of five million dollars or less be
     5  reserved for small businesses as defined in section one hundred  thirty-
     6  one  of  the economic development law, including minority-owned business
     7  enterprises and women-owned business enterprises as defined  in  section
     8  three hundred ten of the executive law.
     9    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00431-01-9