Directs contracting state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to increase participation of minority- and women-owned businesses with respect to state contracts and subcontracts which includes an analyses of the use of discretionary buying.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing contracting
state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to increase partic-
ipation of MWBEs with respect to state contracts and subcontracts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d-1) of subdivision 3 of section 311 of the
2 executive law, as added by chapter 96 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (d-1) to require all contracting state agencies to develop a [four-
5 year] three-year growth plan to determine a means of promoting and
6 increasing participation by minority-owned and women-owned business
7 enterprises with respect to state contracts and subcontracts. Every
8 [four] three years, beginning September fifteenth, two thousand twenty,
9 each contracting state agency shall submit a [four-year] three-year
10 growth plan as part of its annual report to the governor and legislature
11 pursuant to section one hundred sixty-four of this chapter. Such growth
12 plans shall include, but not be limited to, an analysis of the contract-
13 ing agency's use of discretionary buying in accordance with subdivision
14 six of section one hundred sixty-three of the state finance law and what
15 percentage of total commodities and service purchases within the discre-
16 tionary buying dollar threshold are awarded to certified minority-owned
17 and women-owned business enterprises pursuant to that authorization and
18 whether this authorization can be used to increase participation by
19 minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises, an analysis of how
20 the contracting agency can use the empire state development corpo-
21 ration's and the division's resources to facilitate additional minori-
22 ty-owned and women-owned business enterprise participation and any
23 recommendations for programmatic modifications that would make those
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 resources easier to use, an analysis of what steps the contracting agen-
2 cy plans to take to improve minority-owned and women-owned business
3 enterprise capacity to participate in additional contracts and become
4 viable bidders for larger contracts, an explanation of how the contract-
5 ing agency is debriefing minority-owned and women-owned business enter-
6 prises that lose bids and how that process can improve, and an analysis
7 of the types of contracts where waivers are being granted and steps the
8 state can take to reduce the need for waivers over the course of the
9 growth plan.
10 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 315 of the executive law, as amended by
11 chapter 96 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
12 5. Each agency shall include in its annual report to the governor and
13 legislature pursuant to section one hundred sixty-four of this chapter:
14 (a) its annual goals for contracts with minority-owned and women-owned
15 business enterprises; (b) the number of actual contracts issued to
16 minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises; (c) a summary of
17 all waivers of the requirements of subdivisions six and seven of section
18 three hundred thirteen of this article allowed by the reporting agency
19 during the preceding year, including a description of the basis of the
20 waiver request and the rationale for granting such waiver; (d) whether
21 or not it has been required to prepare a remedial plan, and, if so, the
22 plan and the extent to which the agency has complied with each element
23 of the plan; (e) which expenditures are exempt from participation goals
24 and the rationale for such exemption; and (f) every [four] three years,
25 beginning September fifteenth, two thousand twenty, each agency shall
26 include in such annual report its [four-year] three-year growth plan
27 pursuant to section three hundred eleven of this article.
28 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
29 have become a law; provided, however, the amendments to sections 311 and
30 315 of the executive law made by sections one and two of this act
31 respectively, shall not affect the repeal of such sections and shall be
32 deemed repealed therewith.
