Bill Text: NY A05815 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to participation by individuals with disabilities with respect to state employment and state contracts; requires contractors to report to state agencies regarding the utilization and participation of work on both service and commodity contracts by a person with a disability; requires such state agencies to report to the office of general services and the office of general services to report to the state procurement council, governor, comptroller and the legislature.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A05815 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05815-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5815

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  participation  by
          individuals  with  disabilities  with  respect to state employment and
          state contracts

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

     1    Section 1. Section 163 of the state finance law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
     3    16. a. Contractors shall report to state agencies regarding the utili-
     4  zation and participation of work on both service and commodity contracts
     5  by  a  person  with a disability as defined in subdivision twenty-one of
     6  section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law.   Nothing  in  this
     7  subdivision  shall  be  deemed  to  require a disclosure of status of an
     8  individual with a disability, where  not  otherwise  required,  however,
     9  nothing  shall  prevent an individual from voluntarily self-reporting as
    10  an individual with a disability.
    11    b. State agencies shall compile such information and  report  annually
    12  to  the office of general services. The office of general services shall
    13  submit a report annually to the state procurement council, the governor,
    14  the state comptroller, the temporary president of the senate and speaker
    15  of the assembly detailing the percentage of work being done by  individ-
    16  uals with a disability on service and commodity contracts.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    18  it  shall  have  become  a law; provided, however that the amendments to
    19  section 163 of the state finance law made by section  one  of  this  act
    20  shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed
    21  therewith. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/ or repeal
    22  of  any  rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act
    23  on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and  completed  on  or
    24  before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10037-01-3