STATE OF NEW YORK
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1542
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE, WRIGHT, SEAWRIGHT, BLAKE, MOSLEY,
SOLAGES, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, JEAN-PIERRE, HYNDMAN, COOK, WALKER, DAVILA
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DINOWITZ, SIMON -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
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
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 in the general fund to the credit of the state purposes account, not
2 otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of carrying out the provisions
3 of section one of this act. Such sum shall be payable on the audit and
4 warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by
5 the division of minority and women's business development, or its duly
6 designated representative in the manner provided by law. No expenditure
7 shall be made from this appropriation until a certificate of approval of
8 availability shall have been issued by the director of the budget and
9 filed with the state comptroller and a copy filed with the chair of the
10 senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means
11 committee. Such certificate may be amended from time to time by the
12 director of the budget and a copy of each such amendment shall be filed
13 with the state comptroller, the chair of the senate finance committee
14 and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
16 the amendments to section 311 of the executive law made by section one
17 of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be
18 deemed to expire therewith.