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                                   5784
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 18, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  outreach  programming
   for  minority  and  women-owned  business  enterprises;  and making an
   appropriation therefor

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs (a) and (c) of subdivision 3 of section 311 of
 the executive law, as added by chapter 261 of  the  laws  of  1988,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  to  encourage and assist contracting agencies in their efforts to
 increase participation by minority and women-owned business  enterprises
 on  state  contracts and subcontracts so as to facilitate the award of a
 fair share of such contracts to them AND TO PROVIDE  ON  THE  DIVISION'S
 WEBSITE  A  LIST  OF  EACH CONTRACTING AGENCY'S MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED
 BUSINESS  ENTERPRISES   CERTIFICATION   OUTREACH   SEMINARS,   CONTACTS,
 RESOURCES, EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES;
   (c)  to conduct educational OUTREACH programs TO ENCOURAGE THE CERTIF-
 ICATION OF MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, AS DEFINED  BY
 SUBDIVISIONS  SEVEN  AND  FIFTEEN  OF  SECTION THREE HUNDRED TEN OF THIS
 ARTICLE, AND TO PROMOTE SUCH PROGRAM TO GROUPS OF  MINORITIES,  WITH  AN
 EMPHASIS  ON  UNDER-REPRESENTED MINORITIES, consistent with the purposes
 of this article. AS USED IN THIS PARAGRAPH,  "UNDER-REPRESENTED  MINORI-
 TIES" MEANS MINORITY GROUPS WITH A STATE CONTRACT PARTICIPATION PERCENT-
 AGE  OF  LESS  THAN TWENTY PERCENT OF THE TOTAL MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED
 BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PARTICIPATION, SUCH AS BLACKS AND HISPANICS;
   § 2. The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000), or so  much  thereof
 as  may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the division of minority
 and women's business development from any moneys in the  state  treasury
 in  the  general  fund  to the credit of the state purposes account, not
 otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of carrying out the  provisions
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 of  section  one of this act. Such sum shall be payable on the audit and
 warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers certified  or  approved  by
 the  division  of minority and women's business development, or its duly
 designated  representative in the manner provided by law. No expenditure
 shall be made from this appropriation until a certificate of approval of
 availability shall have been issued by the director of  the  budget  and
 filed  with the state comptroller and a copy filed with the chair of the
 senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly  ways  and  means
 committee.  Such  certificate  may  be  amended from time to time by the
 director of the budget and a copy of each such amendment shall be  filed
 with  the  state  comptroller, the chair of the senate finance committee
 and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments  to section 311 of the executive law made by section one
 of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be
 deemed to expire therewith.