What's happening
This bill allows New York authorities to award a certain percentage of contracts to small and minority/women-owned businesses under specific guidelines.
Why it matters
Creates a targeted procurement process. The bill authorizes public authorities to establish special procedures for awarding contracts specifically to small businesses and certified minority/women-owned enterprises, potentially increasing their access to state contracting opportunities.
Requires ongoing oversight and evaluation. Authorities must benchmark contract awards and conduct annual assessments of how well these procedures advance diversity and inclusion goals, reporting their findings to state leadership, which could drive accountability and policy adjustments.
Sets clear participation limits. The measure caps these targeted contracts at 2% of total annual contracting value (with a 1% minimum), which both provides new opportunities for underrepresented businesses and ensures that most contracts remain available through standard processes, balancing inclusivity with broader competition.
Temporary provision with a set expiration. The law is structured as a pilot, expiring July 1, 2024, which means its effectiveness and impacts will likely be reviewed before any permanent adoption, giving stakeholders a chance to assess its benefits and drawbacks.
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Boost Contracts for Small Businesses
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Enacting clause stricken
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
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.
Boost Contracts for Small Businesses
In Senate Committee · Corporations, Authorities And Commissions · Sponsor Leroy Comrie
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
367
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SEAWRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the award of certain contracts to small businesses and/or businesses certified under article 15-A of the executive law; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 1678 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a new subdivision 29 to read as follows:
29. (a) To award contracts, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for the procurement of goods or services from small businesses and/or businesses certified under article fifteen-A of the executive law in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision.
(b) Procurements made pursuant to this subdivision shall be governed by the authority's procurement policy and guidelines adopted pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred seventy-nine of this chapter. Such guidelines shall include, but not be limited to: (i) a competitive process that provides opportunity and access to procurements, pursuant to which contracts may be awarded to small businesses and/or businesses certified under article fifteen-A of the executive law; (ii) provide a benchmark of amounts paid under contracts awarded under this subdivision against amounts paid under other authority contracts for like goods or services; and (iii) require an annual assessment of the effectiveness of such procedures in helping the authority achieve the authority's goals established pursuant to article fifteen-A of the executive law for participation by minority and women-owned enterprises. Such annual assessment may be included within the authority's annual report required by this article and shall be submitted to the governor, the temporary president
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of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly.
(c) The total value of contracts awarded pursuant to this subdivision shall not exceed two percent of the value of all contracts offered in any fiscal year of the authority; provided, however, the total amount available for award pursuant to this section shall not be less than one percent of the value of all contracts offered in any fiscal year of the authority.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire July 1, 2024 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed repealed.
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