What's happening
This bill requires state agencies to help contractors identify and hire minority group members and women in apprenticeship programs.
Why it matters
Increases collaboration between state agencies. The bill requires the Division of Minority and Women's Business Development and the Department of Labor to actively work together, ensuring contractors can more easily identify and recruit minority group members and women for apprenticeship programs.
Improves access to apprenticeship opportunities. By helping contractors locate qualified minority and women apprentices, the legislation could create more equitable access to well-paying, skilled jobs traditionally underrepresented by these groups.
May help contractors meet diversity requirements. State contractors often have obligations to hire a diverse workforce. This bill provides them with practical assistance, potentially making it easier to comply with state diversity mandates and avoid penalties.
Signals a broader push for workforce inclusion. The coordinated efforts mandated by this bill reflect a policy shift toward not only setting diversity goals, but also providing the infrastructure and support to achieve them—potentially influencing industry standards and future legislation.
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Promote Diverse Hiring in Construction
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- Referred to finance
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Help Contractors Hire Minorities
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Operations · Sponsor Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6373
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 6, 2019
Introduced by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the executive law and the labor law, in relation to assisting contractors to identify minority group members and women for hiring opportunities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraphs (h) and (i) of subdivision 3 of section 311 of the executive law, paragraph (h) as amended and paragraph (i) as added by section 1 of part BB of chapter 59 of the laws of 2006, are amended to read as follows:
(h) notwithstanding the provisions of section two hundred ninety-six of this chapter, to file a complaint pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred ninety-seven of this chapter where the director has knowledge that a contractor may have violated the provisions of paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subdivision one of section two hundred ninetysix of this chapter where such violation is unrelated, separate or distinct from the state contract as expressed by its terms; [and]
(i) to streamline the state certification process to accept federal and municipal corporation certifications; and
(j) to work in conjunction with the industrial commissioner pursuant to paragraph (j) of subdivision one of section eight hundred eleven of the labor law to assist contractors in identifying minority group members and women who are participating in apprenticeship agreements under article twenty-three of the labor law.
§ 2. Paragraphs (j) and (k) of subdivision 1 of section 811 of the labor law, as relettered by chapter 884 of the laws of 1965, are relettered paragraphs (k) and (l) and a new paragraph (j) is added to read as follows:
(j) to cooperate with the director of the division of minority and women's business development pursuant to paragraph (j) of subdivision
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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three of section three hundred eleven of the executive law to assist contractors in locating minority group members and women who are participating in apprenticeships agreements;
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, however 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 be deemed to expire therewith. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the executive law and the labor law, in relation to assisting contractors to identify minority group members and women for hiring opportunities
Purpose
The purpose of this bill is to increase the diversity in the workforce of the construction industry while working with the Industrial Commis- sioner and the CD Director of the Division of Minority and Women-Owned Businesses Development to help increase access to minority and women workers.
Summary of provisions
To amend the executive law and the labor law, in relation to assisting contractors to identify minority group members and women for hiring opportunities
Justification
According to a New York State 2016 disparity study conducted by Mason Tillman women and minorities continue to get hired at disproportionately low rates even though they account for a large amount of the workforce. This bill would provide the assistance of the Industrial Commissioner and the Director of the Division of Minority and Women's Business Devel- opment to help contractors find and identify minorities and women to hire in the workforce for the purpose of closing the disparity gap.
Legislative history
None
Fiscal implications
To be Determined
Local fiscal implications
None
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, however 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 be deemed to expire therewith.
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