Requires public corporations and agencies to provide written notice to each minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on a contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining the contract.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1087--A
Cal. No. 432
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, COONEY, LIU, RAMOS, ROLISON, WEBB -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted
to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said
committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third
reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled,
vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and the economic development
law, in relation to requiring public corporations and agencies to
provide written notice to each minority- or women-owned business
enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on a contract of the reason or
reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining the
contract
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause IV of subparagraph (H) of paragraph (j) of subdivi-
2 sion 3 of section 2879 of the public authorities law, as added by chap-
3 ter 174 of the laws of 2010, is amended and a new subparagraph (I) is
4 added to read as follows:
5 IV. consult the most recent disparity study pursuant to article
6 fifteen-A of the executive law[.]; and
7 (I) A requirement that, within thirty days of the awarding of a
8 contract, the corporation awarding the contract provide written notice
9 to each minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully
10 bid on the contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise
11 was unsuccessful in obtaining the contract.
12 § 2. Section 143 of the economic development law is amended by adding
13 a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 6. Within thirty days of the awarding of a contract, the agency award-
2 ing the contract shall provide written notice to each minority- or
3 women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on the contract
4 of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in
5 obtaining the contract.
6 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
7 have become a law.
