Bill Text: NY S04165 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the publication of information regarding waivers of compliance with state contract provisions concerning minority-owned and women-owned business enterprise participation requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-08-02 - SIGNED CHAP.348 [S04165 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04165-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4165--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be 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  the  publication  of
          information  regarding  waivers  of  compliance  with  state  contract
          provisions concerning minority  and  women-owned  business  enterprise
          participation requirements

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 6 of section 313 of the execu-
     2  tive law, as amended by chapter 96 of the laws of 2019,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (b)  Upon  the  issuance  of  all waivers of compliance as provided in
     5  paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the  contracting  agency  shall:  (i)
     6  report  the  issuance of the waiver to the director; and (ii) publish on
     7  the contracting agency's website on a monthly basis, if practicable, but
     8  no less than on a quarterly basis, in a location  easily  accessible  to
     9  the general public:  (1) information identifying the contract, including
    10  the  value of the contract; (2) the name of the contractor receiving the
    11  waiver; (3) the date of the waiver; [and] (4) whether the waiver  was  a
    12  partial  or  total  waiver;  and (5) the specific contract provisions to
    13  which the waiver applies.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law; provided, however, that:
    16    a. the amendments to subdivision 6 of section 313 of the executive law
    17  made by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration of arti-
    18  cle 15-A of such law and shall be deemed to expire therewith; and
    19    b. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
    20  rule  or  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
    21  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
    22  effective date.

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