Bill Text: NY S03214 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to outreach programming for minority and women-owned business enterprises; makes an appropriation therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S03214 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03214-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3214
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE,  KENNEDY,  MONTGOMERY,  PARKER,  PERSAUD,
          SANDERS, SEPULVEDA -- 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  outreach  programming
          for  minority  and  women-owned  business  enterprises;  and making an
          appropriation therefor
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs (a) and (c) of subdivision 3 of section 311 of
     2  the executive law, as added by chapter 261 of  the  laws  of  1988,  are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  to  encourage and assist contracting agencies in their efforts to
     5  increase participation by minority and women-owned business  enterprises
     6  on  state  contracts and subcontracts so as to facilitate the award of a
     7  fair share of such contracts to them and to provide  on  the  division's
     8  website  a  list  of  each contracting agency's minority and women-owned
     9  business  enterprises   certification   outreach   seminars,   contacts,
    10  resources, events and opportunities;
    11    (c)  to conduct educational outreach programs to encourage the certif-
    12  ication of minority and women-owned business enterprises, as defined  by
    13  subdivisions  seven  and  fifteen  of  section three hundred ten of this
    14  article, and to promote such program to groups of  minorities,  with  an
    15  emphasis  on  under-represented minorities, consistent with the purposes
    16  of this article. As used in this paragraph,  "under-represented  minori-
    17  ties" means minority groups with a state contract participation percent-
    18  age  of  less  than twenty percent of the total minority and women-owned
    19  business enterprise participation, such as blacks and Hispanics;
    20    § 2. The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000), or so  much  thereof
    21  as  may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the division of minority
    22  and women's business development from any moneys in the  state  treasury
    23  in  the  general  fund  to the credit of the state purposes account, not
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of carrying out the  provisions
     2  of  section  one of this act. Such sum shall be payable on the audit and
     3  warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers certified  or  approved  by
     4  the  division  of minority and women's business development, or its duly
     5  designated representative in the manner provided by law. No  expenditure
     6  shall be made from this appropriation until a certificate of approval of
     7  availability  shall  have  been issued by the director of the budget and
     8  filed with the state comptroller and a copy filed with the chair of  the
     9  senate  finance  committee  and the chair of the assembly ways and means
    10  committee. Such certificate may be amended from  time  to  time  by  the
    11  director  of the budget and a copy of each such amendment shall be filed
    12  with the state comptroller, the chair of the  senate  finance  committee
    13  and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee.
    14    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    15  the amendments to section 311 of the executive law made by  section  one
    16  of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be
    17  deemed to expire therewith.