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A1789Assembly2017-2018 SessionSame asS858

Certify Tribal-Owned Businesses

Official title

“Directs the director of the division of minority and women's business development to provide for the minority and women-owned business certification of business entities owned by Indian nations or tribes”

Sponsor Crystal Peoples-StokesAD-141+5 co-sponsorsAffects Finance
Status
Vetoed
Impact
4/10
Low
Outcome
Vetoed

Bill progress

Vetoed

What's happening

This bill allows business entities wholly owned by Indian nations or tribes to be certified for New York's minority and women owned business enterprise program without completing the standard state certification process.

Why it matters

  1. Streamlines access for tribally owned businesses. By allowing entities wholly owned by Indian nations or tribes to bypass the standard state certification process, the bill reduces administrative barriers and accelerates their participation in New York’s MWBE (Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise) program.

  2. Recognizes tribal sovereignty and unique status. The bill acknowledges the legal standing of Indian nations and tribes, treating their ownership as inherently meeting the program’s intent without requiring them to prove minority status through conventional state channels.

  3. Potentially increases competition and diversity. As tribally owned businesses gain easier access to state contracting opportunities, this could broaden the pool of MWBE-certified vendors, encouraging more diverse suppliers and fostering economic development within Native communities.

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Who cares

  • Wholly tribally owned businesses

    The bill would create a procedure for approving their applications to the minority- and women-owned business enterprise program without requiring them to complete the state certification process.

  • Indian nations and tribes

    The alternative approval procedure would apply to businesses they wholly own, with eligible nations and tribes defined by section two of the Indian Law.

  • Division of Minority and Women's Business Development

    Its director would have to establish the alternative application approval procedure.

Headline styles

Certify Tribal-Owned Businesses

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Crystal Peoples-Stokes

Assembly Member · Assembly District 141

History

  1. Tabled
  2. Vetoed memo.328
  3. Delivered to governor
  4. Returned to assembly
  5. Passed senateVote 59–1
  6. 3rd reading cal.2028
  7. Substituted for S858
  8. Referred to finance
  9. Delivered to senate
  10. Passed assembly
  11. Advanced to third reading cal.709
  12. Reported
Show 2 earlier actions
  1. Referred to governmental operations
  2. Referred to governmental operations

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S858Senate

Certify Tribal-Owned Businesses

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Catharine Young

Impact 4 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

1789

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 13, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the director of the division of minority and women's business development to provide for the certification of certain business entities owned by an Indian nation or tribe for participation in the minority and women owned business enterprise program

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 314 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdivision 2-b to read as follows:

2-b. The director shall establish a procedure enabling the office to approve an application by a business entity that is wholly owned by a Indian nation or tribe, as defined in section two of the Indian law, in lieu of requiring the applicant to complete the state certification process.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that the amendments to article 15-A of the executive law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration of such article and shall expire therewith.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD05533-01-7

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