Requires a separate section in the annual report of the director of the division of minority and women's business development detailing every instance of an entity fraudulently representing itself as a minority and women-owned business enterprise when it was not.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6515
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 17, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring reporting on
fraud regarding minority and women-owned business enterprises
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section 311 of the execu-
2 tive law, as amended by chapter 55 of the laws of 1992, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (e) on January first of each year report to the governor and the
5 chairpersons of the senate finance and assembly ways and means commit-
6 tees on the level of minority and women-owned business enterprises
7 participating in each agency's contracts for goods and services and on
8 activities of the office and effort by each contracting agency to
9 promote employment of minority group members and women, and to promote
10 and increase participation by certified businesses with respect to state
11 contracts and subcontracts so as to facilitate the award of a fair share
12 of state contracts to such businesses. The comptroller shall assist the
13 division in collecting information on the participation of certified
14 business for each contracting agency. Such report may recommend new
15 activities and programs to effectuate the purposes of this article. Such
16 report shall include a separate section detailing every instance of an
17 entity fraudulently representing itself as a minority and women-owned
18 business enterprise when it was not;
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however that
20 the amendments to section 311 of the executive law made by section one
21 of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
22 deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10974-01-5
