S 596: Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise if there is no change in the ownership of the enterprise and no material change in the nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval of the previous minority and women-owned business enterprise certification.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 596 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HINCHEY, COONEY, FERNANDEZ, MURRAY, 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 providing a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 314 of the executive law, as 2 amended by chapter 96 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 5. (a) With the exception of provisional MWBE certification, as 5 provided for in subdivision twenty-three of section three hundred ten of 6 this article, all minority and women-owned business enterprise certif- 7 ications shall be valid for a period of five years. 8 (b) Upon the expiration of a minority and women-owned business enter- 9 prise certification and the submission of a new application for minority 10 and women-owned business enterprise recertification, if there is no 11 change in the ownership of the enterprise and no material change in the 12 nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval of a 13 previous original minority and women-owned business enterprise certif- 14 ication that was approved within the previous ten years, if such appli- 15 cation is compliant with 21 NYCRR 9606 then there shall be a rebuttable 16 presumption that the previous minority-owned business enterprise satis- 17 fies the requirements of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subdivision 18 seven of section three hundred ten of this article and that the previous 19 women-owned business enterprise satisfies the requirements of paragraphs 20 (a), (b) and (c) of subdivision fifteen of section three hundred ten of 21 this article. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01747-01-5 
 S. 596 2 1 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 2 the date upon which it shall have become a law and shall apply to appli- 3 cations submitted by a business enterprise for minority and women-owned 4 business enterprise recertification submitted on and after such effec- 5 tive date; provided, however, that the amendments to section 314 of the 6 executive law made by section one of this act shall not affect the 7 repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.