Bill Text: NY A03523 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the empire state development corporation to retain one or more independent MWBE consultant firms to conduct an independent review of procurement procedures utilized by state agencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A03523 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03523-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3523

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to authorizing the empire
          state development corporation to retain one or more  independent  MWBE
          consultant  firms  to  conduct  an  independent  review of procurement
          procedures utilized by state agencies

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 311-a of the executive law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. The empire state development corporation, acting through the state-
     4  wide advocate, shall retain one  or  more  independent  MWBE  consultant
     5  firms  to  conduct  an  independent  review  of  procurement  procedures
     6  utilized by state agencies, the level and training of staff involved  in
     7  the  procurement process and the outreach measures used by such staff to
     8  work with minority-owned and women-owned businesses during the  procure-
     9  ment  process.  The WMBE contractor shall report its findings and recom-
    10  mendations for improvements to the statewide  advocate  on  a  quarterly
    11  basis.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law; provided, however, that  the  amendments  to  section
    14  311-a  of  the  executive  law made by section one of this act shall not
    15  affect the repeal of article 15-A of the  executive  law  and  shall  be
    16  deemed to repealed therewith.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07282-01-3