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                                  5317--A
     Cal. No. 518
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 21, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  CROCI, HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
   land  Security  and  Military  Affairs -- reported favorably from said
   committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered  to  a  third
   reading,  passed  by  Senate  and delivered to the Assembly, recalled,
   vote reconsidered, restored to  third  reading,  amended  and  ordered
   reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to the report submitted
   by the division of service-disabled veterans' business development
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (f)  of  subdivision 4 of section 369-i of the
 executive law, as added by chapter 22 of the laws of 2014, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (f) Submit a report by the thirty-first of December each  year,  [with
 the  first  report  due  by the thirty-first of December in the calendar
 year next succeeding the calendar year in which this article shall  have
 become  a  law,] to the governor, the temporary president of the senate,
 [and] the speaker of the assembly AND THE  CHAIRPERSONS  OF  THE  SENATE
 FINANCE  AND  ASSEMBLY  WAYS  AND  MEANS COMMITTEES.   Such report shall
 include information  including,  but  not  limited  to,  the  number  of
 contracts  entered  into pursuant to this article, the average amount of
 such contracts, the number of  service-disabled  veteran-owned  business
 enterprises certified, the number of applications for certification as a
 service-disabled   veteran-owned  business  enterprise,  the  number  of
 denials for such certification, the number of appeals of  such  denials,
 and  the  outcome  of such appeals and the average time that is required
 for such certification to be completed. ALSO TO BE INCLUDED SHALL BE THE
 LEVEL OF SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED BUSINESSES PARTICIPATING IN EACH
 AGENCY'S CONTRACTS FOR GOODS AND SERVICES AND ON ACTIVITIES OF THE DIVI-
 SION AND EFFORTS BY EACH CONTRACTING AGENCY TO  PROMOTE  UTILIZATION  OF
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 SERVICE-DISABLED  VETERAN-OWNED  BUSINESSES  AND TO PROMOTE AND INCREASE
 PARTICIPATION BY  CERTIFIED  SERVICE-DISABLED  VETERAN-OWNED  BUSINESSES
 WITH  RESPECT  TO  STATE  CONTRACTS AND SUBCONTRACTS TO SUCH BUSINESSES.
 SUCH  REPORT MAY RECOMMEND NEW ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS TO EFFECTUATE THE
 PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments  made to paragraph (f) of subdivision 4 of section 369-i
 of article 17-B of the executive law, made by section one of  this  act,
 shall not affect the repeal of such article and shall be deemed repealed
 therewith.