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

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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]

Download: New_York-2021-S00541-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         541--A

                               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
          --  committee  discharged  and said bill committed to the Committee on
          Procurement and  Contracts  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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 over a fifty-two week period

          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 over the period of fifty-two
     9  weeks for a total of one  thousand  five  hundred  sixty  hours  worked,
    10  taking into consideration factors which include, but are not limited to,
    11  federal  small business administration standards pursuant to 13 CFR part
    12  121 and any amendments thereto. The director may  issue  regulations  on
    13  the  construction  of the terms in this definition. For purposes of this
    14  subdivision, an employee may break from employment for  up  to  thirteen
    15  weeks without the fifty-two week lookback period resetting.
    16    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    17  ments to subdivision 20 of section 310 of  the  executive  law  made  by
    18  section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
    19  shall be deemed repealed therewith.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04908-02-1