New York Senate Bill S06314 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6314 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, 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 authorizing the empire state development corporation to retain one or more independent MWBE consultant firms to conduct an independent review of procurement procedures utilized by state agencies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 311-a of the executive law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. The empire state development corporation, acting through the state- 4 wide advocate, shall retain one or more independent MWBE consultant 5 firms to conduct an independent review of procurement procedures 6 utilized by state agencies, the level and training of staff involved in 7 the procurement process and the outreach measures used by such staff to 8 work with minority-owned and women-owned businesses during the procure- 9 ment process. The WMBE contractor shall report its findings and recom- 10 mendations for improvements to the statewide advocate on a quarterly 11 basis. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to section 14 311-a of the executive law made by section one of this act shall not 15 affect the repeal of article 15-A of the executive law and shall be 16 deemed to repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10438-01-5