S 4975: Increases the threshold for office of the comptroller review of the metropolitan transportation authority discretionary awards to MWBEs and small businesses from one million dollars to one million five hundred thousand dollars.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4975 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to modernizing the metropolitan transportation authority's small business mentoring program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 1209 of the public authorities 2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 3 (c) Subdivision one of section twenty-eight hundred seventy-nine-a of 4 this chapter shall only apply to authority contracts with an estimated 5 value greater than one million five hundred thousand dollars. 6 § 2. Subdivision 10 of section 1265-a of the public authorities law is 7 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 8 (c) Subdivision one of section twenty-eight hundred seventy-nine-a of 9 this chapter shall only apply to authority contracts with an estimated 10 value greater than one million five hundred thousand dollars. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06022-01-5