Requires public corporations and agencies to provide 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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5338--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 26, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and the economic development
law, in relation to requiring public corporations and agencies to
provide 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 notice to each
9 minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on
10 the contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise was
11 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:
14 6. Within thirty days of the awarding of a contract, the agency award-
15 ing the contract shall provide notice to each minority- or women-owned
16 business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on the contract of the
17 reason or reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in
18 obtaining the contract.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00305-03-0