Bill Text: NY S00541 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Changes the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency from three hundred employees to three hundred employees who work thirty or more hours per week over the period of fifty-two weeks for a total of 1,560 hours worked.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-01 - referred to governmental operations [S00541 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           541

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens. KAPLAN, SANDERS, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to changing  the  maximum
          number  of  employees  that a minority and women-owned business enter-
          prise may have from three hundred employees to three hundred employees
          who work thirty or more hours per week

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  20  of  section 310 of the executive law, as
     2  added by chapter 175 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
     3    20. "Small business" as used in this section, unless  otherwise  indi-
     4  cated,  shall  mean a business which has a significant business presence
     5  in the state, is independently owned and operated, not dominant  in  its
     6  field and employs, based on its industry, a certain number of persons as
     7  determined  by  the  director, but not to exceed three hundred employees
     8  who work thirty or more hours per week, on average over  the  period  of
     9  fifty-two  weeks,  taking  into consideration factors which include, but
    10  are not limited to,  federal  small  business  administration  standards
    11  pursuant to 13 CFR part 121 and any amendments thereto. The director may
    12  issue regulations on the construction of the terms in this definition.
    13    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    14  ments to subdivision 20 of section 310 of  the  executive  law  made  by
    15  section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
    16  shall be deemed repealed therewith.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04908-01-1