S 7205: Authorizes the director of the division of minority and women's business development and the county executive of counties to enter into a memorandum of understanding to allow reciprocity between the state and such county for businesses that are certified as minority and women-owned business enterprises.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7205 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE April 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RHOADS -- 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 reciprocal minority and women-owned business enterprise certification The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 314 of the executive law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows: 3 (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director and any 4 county, acting through its county executive, may enter into a memorandum 5 of understanding setting forth a procedure through which: (i) such coun- 6 ty shall accept an applicant's state certification verification in lieu 7 of requiring such applicant to complete such county's process for 8 certification as a minority or women-owned business enterprise or meet 9 the certification standards of such county's minority and women-owned 10 business enterprise program; and (ii) the office shall accept an appli- 11 cant's county certification verification in lieu of requiring an appli- 12 cant to complete the process for certification as a minority or women- 13 owned business enterprise or meet the applicable certification standards 14 set forth in this article; provided, however, that such memorandum of 15 understanding may include one or more exceptions in circumstances where 16 the director and such county executive determine that such exceptions 17 would be in the best interests of both such county's program and the 18 program established pursuant to this article. Nothing in this paragraph 19 shall be construed to limit the director or such county from amending 20 their respective processes or standards for certifying minority and 21 women-owned business enterprises. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the two hundred seventieth day 23 after it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments 24 to subdivision 2-a of section 314 of the executive law made by section 25 one of this act shall not affect the repeal of article 15-A of the exec- 26 utive law pursuant to chapter 261 of the laws of 1988, as amended, and 27 shall be deemed repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11140-02-5