S 1215: Relates to the requirements of the annual report from the division of minority and women's business development.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1215 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, FERNANDEZ, PARKER, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requirements of the annual report from the division of minority and women's business development The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 315 of the executive law, as 2 amended by chapter 96 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. The division of minority and women's business development shall 5 issue an annual report which: (a) summarizes the report submitted by 6 each contracting agency pursuant to subdivision three of this section; 7 (b) contains such comparative or other information as the director deems 8 appropriate, including but not limited to goals compared to actual 9 participation of minority and women-owned business enterprises in state 10 contracting and a listing of annual participation rates for each agency, 11 the total number of certified minority and women-owned businesses for 12 that reporting year, and the total dollar value of state expenditures on 13 certified minority and women-owned business contracts and subcontracts 14 for that reporting year, to evaluate the effectiveness of the activities 15 undertaken by each such contracting agency to promote increased partic- 16 ipation by certified minority or women-owned businesses with respect to 17 state contracts and subcontracts; (c) contains a summary of all waivers 18 of the requirements of subdivisions six and seven of section three 19 hundred thirteen of this article allowed by each contracting agency 20 during the period covered by the report, including a description of the 21 basis of the waiver request and the contracting agency's rationale for 22 granting any such waiver; (d) describes any efforts to create a database 23 or other information storage and retrieval system containing information EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03240-01-5 
 S. 1215 2 1 relevant to contracting with minority and women-owned business enter- 2 prises; [and] (e) contains a summary of (i) all determinations of 3 violations of this article by a contractor or a contracting agency made 4 during the period covered by the annual report pursuant to section three 5 hundred sixteen-a of this article and (ii) the penalties or sanctions, 6 if any, assessed in connection with such determinations and the ration- 7 ale for such penalties or sanctions; (f) contains reports on contracts 8 by ethnicity, gender, industry, prime contractor or subcontractor, 9 contract type, such as construction, goods and purchase, professional or 10 standard services, and value of contract; and (g) contains a summary of 11 all certified minority and women-owned business enterprises, categorized 12 by ethnicity and gender. For purposes of this subdivision "ethnicity" 13 shall mean the same as minority group member as defined by subdivision 14 eight of section three hundred ten of this article, and shall include 15 caucasian women. Copies of the annual report shall be provided to the 16 commissioner, the governor, the comptroller, the temporary president of 17 the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the 18 senate, the minority leader of the assembly and shall also be made wide- 19 ly available to the public via, among other things, publication on a 20 website maintained by the division of minority and women's business 21 development. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 23 the amendments to section 315 of the executive law, made by section one 24 of this act, shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be 25 deemed repealed therewith.