Bill Text: NY A05011 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires public corporations and agencies to provide written 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 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-10 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A05011 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-A05011-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5011 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, WILLIAMS, GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commis- sions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and the economic development law, in relation to requiring public corporations and agencies to provide written 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 written notice 9 to each minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully 10 bid on the contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise 11 was 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 written notice to each minority- or 16 women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on the contract 17 of the 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. LBD04935-01-5
