Increases the dollar threshold for purchases from businesses certified as minority or women-owned that can be made without a formal competitive process.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10459
IN ASSEMBLY
May 25, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A.
Bichotte Hermelyn) -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the New York city charter, in relation to opportunities
for businesses owned by women and minorities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision i of section 311 of the New York
2 city charter, as amended by chapter 98 of the laws of 2019, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 1. agencies may make procurements of goods, services and construction
5 for amounts not exceeding [five hundred thousand] one million dollars
6 from businesses certified as minority or women-owned business enter-
7 prises pursuant to section thirteen hundred four of the charter without
8 a formal competitive process.
9 § 2. Paragraph 3 of subdivision i of section 311 of the New York city
10 charter, as amended by chapter 19 of the laws of 2018, is amended to
11 read as follows:
12 3. the rule or rules promulgated to implement paragraph one of this
13 subdivision shall provide that the city shall, commencing on the first
14 of October of the first full calendar year following the adoption of
15 such rule or rules, submit an annual report to the governor and the
16 state legislature of the total number and total dollar value of procure-
17 ments of goods and services for amounts not exceeding [one hundred fifty
18 thousand dollars] the dollar amount threshold for making procurements
19 without a formal competitive process as established by rule pursuant to
20 paragraph one of this subdivision from:
21 (i) businesses certified as minority or women-owned business enter-
22 prises pursuant to section thirteen hundred four of the charter;
23 (ii) all other businesses; and
24 (iii) information about the number of businesses certified as minority
25 or women-owned business enterprises pursuant to section thirteen hundred
26 four of this charter able to perform the specific type and scale of work
27 involved in each procurement.
28 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15920-01-2
