Relates to the utilization of minority and women-owned business enterprises, service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, small businesses and microbusinesses in state-funded construction projects; directs the empire state development corporation, in consultation with other state agencies, to develop a state division of post-construction commitments and compliance to create rules and regulations for private businesses operating in buildings constructed using state funding to have certain employment goals and living wage requirements, annual minority and women-owned business enterprise, certified service-disabled veteran-owned business, small business and microbusiness utilization goals for maintenance and operations spending, and a community grant program; directs the state division of post-construction commitments and compliance to establish a post-construction compliance review board; provides penalties for noncompliance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8990--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Govern-
mental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the utilization of
minority and women-owned business enterprises, service-disabled veter-
an-owned businesses, small businesses and microbusinesses by private
businesses operating in buildings and other structures that were
constructed using state funding
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new article 16-B
2 to read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 16-B
4 MWBE, SDVOB, SMALL BUSINESS AND MICROBUSINESS UTILIZATION
5 FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES OPERATING IN BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED
6 WITH STATE FUNDING
7 Section 340. Definitions.
8 341. State division of post-construction commitments and compli-
9 ance.
10 342. Post-construction compliance review board.
11 343. Penalties for non-compliance.
12 § 340. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
13 have the following meanings:
14 1. "Minority-owned business enterprise" shall mean a business enter-
15 prise, including a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability
16 company or corporation that is:
17 (a) at least fifty-one percent owned by one or more minority group
18 members;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) an enterprise in which such minority ownership is real, substan-
2 tial and continuing;
3 (c) an enterprise in which such minority ownership has and exercises
4 the authority to control independently the day-to-day business decisions
5 of the enterprise;
6 (d) an enterprise authorized to do business in this state and inde-
7 pendently owned and operated;
8 (e) an enterprise owned by an individual or individuals, whose owner-
9 ship, control and operation are relied upon for certification, with a
10 personal net worth that does not exceed fifteen million dollars, and
11 such other amount as the director shall set forth in regulations, as
12 adjusted annually on the first of January for inflation according to the
13 consumer price index of the previous year; and
14 (f) an enterprise that is a small business pursuant to subdivision
15 four of this section.
16 2. "Women-owned business enterprise" shall mean a business enterprise,
17 including a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company
18 or corporation that is:
19 (a) at least fifty-one percent owned by one or more United States
20 citizens or permanent resident noncitizens who are women;
21 (b) an enterprise in which the ownership interest of such women is
22 real, substantial and continuing;
23 (c) an enterprise in which such women ownership has and exercises the
24 authority to control independently the day-to-day business decisions of
25 the enterprise;
26 (d) an enterprise authorized to do business in this state and inde-
27 pendently owned and operated;
28 (e) an enterprise owned by an individual or individuals, whose owner-
29 ship, control and operation are relied upon for certification, with a
30 personal net worth that does not exceed fifteen million dollars, and
31 such other amount as the director shall set forth in regulations, as
32 adjusted annually on the first of January for inflation according to the
33 consumer price index of the previous year; and
34 (f) an enterprise that is a small business pursuant to subdivision
35 four of this section.
36 3. "Certified service-disabled veteran-owned business enterprise"
37 shall mean a business enterprise, including a sole proprietorship, part-
38 nership, limited liability company or corporation that is:
39 (a) at least fifty-one percent owned by one or more service-disabled
40 veterans;
41 (b) an enterprise in which such service-disabled veteran ownership is
42 real, substantial, and continuing;
43 (c) an enterprise in which such service-disabled veteran ownership has
44 and exercises the authority to control independently the day-to-day
45 business decisions of the enterprise;
46 (d) an enterprise authorized to do business in this state and is inde-
47 pendently owned and operated;
48 (e) an enterprise that is a small business which has a significant
49 business presence in the state, not dominant in its field and employs,
50 based on its industry, a certain number of persons as determined by the
51 director of the division of service-disabled veterans' business develop-
52 ment, but not to exceed three hundred, taking into consideration factors
53 which include, but are not limited to, federal small business adminis-
54 tration standards pursuant to 13 CFR part 121 and any amendments there-
55 to; and
56 (f) certified by the office of general services.
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1 4. "Small business" shall mean a business that is not dominant in its
2 field and has one hundred employees or less.
3 5. "Microbusiness" shall mean a business that is not dominant in its
4 field and has five or fewer employees.
5 6. "Operating business" shall mean a private business operating in a
6 building, facility or other structure that was constructed with state
7 agency funding or operating on land leased from the state of New York.
8 7. "The division" shall mean the state division of post-construction
9 commitments and compliance established pursuant to section three hundred
10 forty-one of this article.
11 8. "The board" shall mean the post-construction compliance review
12 board established pursuant to section three hundred forty-two of this
13 article.
14 9. "Minority group member" shall mean a United States citizen or
15 permanent resident noncitizen who is and can demonstrate membership in
16 one of the following groups:
17 (a) Black persons having origins in any of the Black African racial
18 groups;
19 (b) Hispanic/Latino persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican,
20 Cuban, Central or South American of either Indian or Hispanic origin,
21 regardless of race;
22 (c) Native American or Alaskan native persons having origins in any of
23 the original peoples of North America; or
24 (d) Asian and Pacific Islander persons having origins in any of the
25 Far East countries, South East Asia, the Indian subcontinent or the
26 Pacific Islands.
27 10. "State investment" shall mean the amount of state funding in the
28 construction of a structure that is to be operated or is currently oper-
29 ated by a private business. State investment includes, but is not limit-
30 ed to, tax subsidies, land valuation, cash, or other state-financed
31 funding.
32 § 341. State division of post-construction commitments and compliance.
33 1. The empire state development corporation, in consultation with other
34 state agencies including, but not limited to, the office of general
35 services, the port authority of New York and New Jersey, and the depart-
36 ment of state, shall develop a state division of post-construction
37 commitments and compliance to create rules and regulations for private
38 businesses operating in structures whose construction was state-funded
39 or operating on land leased from the state of New York to have employ-
40 ment goals and living wage requirements, annual minority and women-owned
41 business enterprise, certified service-disabled veteran-owned business,
42 small business and microbusiness utilization goals for maintenance and
43 operations spending, and a community grant program.
44 2. Such rules and regulations shall apply to operating businesses that
45 are either:
46 (a) operated by private companies in structures with a state invest-
47 ment of one million dollars or more, including tax subsidies, land valu-
48 ation, or construction investment; or
49 (b) operated by private companies that are leasing state-owned land or
50 property.
51 3. Unless the operating business has a unionized workforce, at least
52 twenty-five percent of employees working on such construction project
53 shall be residents of disadvantaged zip codes, and the operating busi-
54 ness shall provide a living wage for employees. Where a New York state
55 collective bargaining union agreement has been agreed upon, the divi-
56 sion's guidelines for post-construction job creation shall be waived and
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1 the division shall serve as an oversight to ensure job creation commit-
2 ments under such agreement are met.
3 4. (a) An operating business shall utilize minority and women-owned
4 business enterprises, certified service-disabled veteran-owned busi-
5 nesses, small businesses and microbusinesses for such operating busi-
6 ness's annual spending on operations and maintenance, including but not
7 limited to vendors, supplies, catering and security, in accordance with
8 the following goals:
9 (i) fifteen percent of such spending shall be with minority-owned
10 business enterprises;
11 (ii) fifteen percent of such spending shall be with women-owned busi-
12 ness enterprises;
13 (iii) six percent of such spending shall be with certified service-
14 disabled veteran-owned businesses;
15 (iv) ten percent of such spending shall be with small businesses; and
16 (v) five percent of such spending shall be with microbusinesses.
17 (b) If an operating business utilizes minority and women-owned busi-
18 ness enterprises and certified service-disabled veteran-owned businesses
19 that are also small businesses, such operating business's spending with
20 such certified companies may count for up to half of the small business
21 spending goal for such year.
22 5. (a) There is hereby established within the division a community
23 grant program for the purpose of awarding grants to entities and
24 construction projects that address socio-economic disparities in the
25 municipality in which the operating business is located.
26 (b) Grants awarded under such program shall be equal to at least five
27 percent of the state investment in the construction of the structure in
28 which the operating business is located.
29 (c) The community grant program shall be funded by the operating busi-
30 ness.
31 (d) Such grant program shall have a public application process made
32 available to nonprofit groups and agencies residing within the project
33 municipality. Such application shall be made available both physically
34 and electronically.
35 (e) The criteria for grants awarded pursuant to this section shall be
36 developed by a community needs assessment, which shall be funded by the
37 operating business. The community needs assessment shall be required to
38 hold a public comment process, prior to the assessment's finalization.
39 6. Where there is public land owned by a municipal or government enti-
40 ty or corporation within a two-mile radius of the operating business,
41 the division shall submit a data-driven assessment and suggested plan of
42 post-construction community commitments following two public hearings
43 held by the division within the municipality. Such plan shall be submit-
44 ted to the municipality for the purposes of community benefits to be
45 considered before land sale by the municipality, in the event the muni-
46 cipality sells the land to the operating business or its affiliates.
47 7. If the operating business terminates its operations before it has
48 fully distributed its community grants, the division shall be responsi-
49 ble for continuing the community grant program and making the necessary
50 distributions with state funding until the five percent of the state
51 investment threshold has been reached.
52 8. The division is hereby authorized to promulgate any rules and/or
53 regulations necessary to effectuate the provisions of this article.
54 § 342. Post-construction compliance review board. 1. The division
55 shall establish a post-construction compliance review board.
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1 2. The board shall consist of seven members, five members shall be
2 appointed by the governor, one member shall be appointed by the senate
3 majority leader, and one member shall be appointed by the speaker of the
4 assembly. These appointments shall be six-year, non-consecutive terms.
5 The board shall have representation from at least seven of the ten
6 economic development regions as established under article eleven of the
7 economic development law: Capital Region, Western New York, New York
8 City, Central New York, and Long Island.
9 3. The board shall meet quarterly to grade the post-construction
10 compliance efforts of each operating business and determine if such
11 operating business meets either the goals of the division or any commu-
12 nity benefit agreement post-construction mandates.
13 4. The division shall create an annual report outlining a quarterly
14 grade and a summary of the project's compliance efforts. Such report
15 shall be made available to the public by electronic, digital or physical
16 publication.
17 5. If the operating business is subject to a community benefit agree-
18 ment that legally mandates post-construction commitments, the rules and
19 regulations of the division established pursuant to section three
20 hundred forty-one of this article may be waived by a majority vote of
21 the board.
22 6. The board shall serve as a compliance officer for the enforcement
23 of such community benefit agreement.
24 § 343. Penalties for non-compliance. If an operating business is found
25 not to be in compliance with any provisions of this article, the divi-
26 sion shall have the authority to:
27 (a) withhold any pending state funds until the operating business is
28 found by the board to be in compliance with the provisions of this arti-
29 cle;
30 (b) prohibit the operating business and any of such operating busi-
31 ness's subsidiaries from receiving any state funding or tax incentives
32 for a period of five years; and/or
33 (c) seek liquidated damages for the pro-rata amount of state invest-
34 ment.
35 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
36 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
37 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
38 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
39 completed on or before such date.
