Relates to the requirements of the annual report from the division of minority and women's business development

Title of bill

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to requirements of the annual report from the division of minority and women's business development

Purpose or general idea of bill

The purpose of this bill is for the division of minority and women's business development to issue and annual report which will summarize all the different information required for their development.

Summary of specific provisions

Section 1 The division of minority and women's business development shall issue an annual report which:

(a) Summarizes the report submitted by each contracting agency.

(b) Contains such comparative or other information the director deems appropriate.

(c) Contains a summary of all waivers which include a description of the basis of the waiver request and the contracting agency's rationale for granting the waivers

(d) Describe any efforts to create an information storage or retrieval system containing information relevant to contracting with minority and women-owned business enterprises

(e) Have a summary that includes all determinations of violations of this article by contractor or a contracting agency made during the period covered by the annual report, and the penalties or sanctions.

(f) Contain a report on contracts by ethnicity, gender, industry, prime contractor or subcontractor, contract type, goods and purchase, professional or standard services and value of contract

(g) Summary of all certified minority and women-owned business enterprises categorized by ethnicity and gender. Copies of the annual report should be provided to the commissioner. The governor, the comptroller, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, the minority leader of the Assembly.

Justification

For the purpose of better reporting and analysis, this bill is asking the division of minority and women's development to compile data in a way, which is more easily disaggregated,

Prior legislative history

None

Fiscal implications

None

Effective date

This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that the amendments to section 315 of the executive law made by section one of this act, shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.