What's happening
This bill requires the New York State Comptroller to publish an interactive, publicly accessible online report on minority and women-owned business contracts and spending by state agencies.
Why it matters
Increases transparency and accountability. by requiring detailed, interactive online reporting on how much state agencies spend with minority and women-owned businesses, making it easier for the public and policymakers to track progress and identify gaps.
Breaks down spending by specific demographic categories. (Asian American, Black American, Hispanic American, and women), allowing for more precise analysis of which groups are benefiting from state contracts and where disparities exist.
Enables year-over-year comparisons. and historical tracking (going back to 2013), which helps measure whether state efforts to support minority and women-owned businesses are improving over time or stagnating.
Encourages user-driven analysis. by allowing website visitors to customize their data searches and disaggregate information, empowering advocacy groups, businesses, and citizens to use the information for research, policy proposals, or business planning.
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Track MWBE Contract Spending
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Sponsors
11 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to governmental operations
- Referred to governmental operations
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STATE OF NEW YORK
427
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to reports on agency minority and women-owned business development contracts and spending
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 8-d to read as follows:
§ 8-d. Report on agency minority and women-owned business development contracts and spending. The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to publish, and make publicly available on its website, a report on agency minority and women-owned business development contracts and spending. Such report shall be interactive for its users, as an online transparency tool, including an intuitive dashboard approach that combines a series of graphs and user-friendly tables, that provides access to subcontractor and minority and women-owned business enterprise spending and contract information pursuant to this section. Such report shall include the amount of money contracted to each state agency and such amount shall be further broken down into the following four categories: Asian American, Black American, Hispanic American, and women. Such report shall also include the total number of prime contractors and subcontractors used as well as the amount of money spent on each contract or contracts. All reportable data shall be published annually by fiscal and calendar year and shall provide for comparison between years. The website shall feature the current calendar and fiscal year report information and archive all previous calendar and fiscal year reports, beginning with the year two thousand thirteen, which shall be easy for users to access. The website shall be developed and designed to allow users to search various combinations of data requests in a single report, with the ability to disaggregate data. The comptroller shall consult with the comptroller of New York city regarding the development and design of the website and shall provide comparable report and data organization for its website.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02120-01-7
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