Assembly Bill A7295

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or critical need

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Current Bill Status Via S1873 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A7295 - Details

Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §310, Exec L

2023-A7295 - Summary

Relates to the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or critical need; changes such maximum from three hundred employees to three hundred employees who work thirty or more hours per week over the period of fifty-two weeks for a total of 1,560 hours worked.

2023-A7295 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7295
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to changing  the  maximum
   number  of  employees  that a minority and women-owned business enter-
   prise may have during a declared state disaster emergency

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  20  of  section 310 of the executive law, as
 added by chapter 175 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   20. "Small business" as used in this section, unless  otherwise  indi-
 cated,  shall  mean a business which has a significant business presence
 in the state, is independently owned and operated, not dominant  in  its
 field and employs, based on its industry, a certain number of persons as
 determined  by  the  director,  but  not to exceed three hundred, EXCEPT
 DURING A DECLARED  STATE  DISASTER  EMERGENCY  AS  DEFINED  PURSUANT  TO
 SECTION  TWENTY-EIGHT  OF  THIS  CHAPTER,  NOT  TO  EXCEED THREE HUNDRED
 EMPLOYEES WHO WORK THIRTY OR MORE HOURS PER  WEEK  OVER  THE  PERIOD  OF
 FIFTY-TWO  WEEKS  FOR  A  TOTAL OF ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY HOURS
 WORKED, taking into consideration factors which  include,  but  are  not
 limited  to, federal small business administration standards pursuant to
 13 CFR part 121 and any amendments thereto. The director may issue regu-
 lations on the  construction  of  the  terms  in  this  definition.  FOR
 PURPOSES  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AN EMPLOYEE MAY BREAK FROM EMPLOYMENT FOR
 UP TO THIRTEEN WEEKS WITHOUT THE FIFTY-TWO WEEK LOOKBACK  PERIOD  RESET-
 TING.
   §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
 ments to subdivision 20 of section 310 of  the  executive  law  made  by
 section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06521-01-3

2023-A7295A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §310, Exec L

2023-A7295A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or critical need; changes such maximum from three hundred employees to three hundred employees who work thirty or more hours per week over the period of fifty-two weeks for a total of 1,560 hours worked.

2023-A7295A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7295--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the maximum number of
   employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have
   during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or crit-
   ical need
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  20  of  section 310 of the executive law, as
 added by chapter 175 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   20. "Small business" as used in this section, unless  otherwise  indi-
 cated,  shall  mean a business which has a significant business presence
 in the state, is independently owned and operated, not dominant  in  its
 field and employs, based on its industry, a certain number of persons as
 determined  by  the  director,  but  not to exceed three hundred, EXCEPT
 DURING A DECLARED  STATE  DISASTER  EMERGENCY  AS  DEFINED  PURSUANT  TO
 SECTION  TWENTY-EIGHT  OF THIS CHAPTER, OR WHEN ENGAGING IN WORK RELATED
 TO ANY OTHER EMERGENCY, OR CRITICAL NEED NOT  TO  EXCEED  THREE  HUNDRED
 EMPLOYEES  WHO  WORK  THIRTY  OR  MORE HOURS PER WEEK OVER THE PERIOD OF
 FIFTY-TWO WEEKS FOR A TOTAL OF ONE THOUSAND  FIVE  HUNDRED  SIXTY  HOURS
 WORKED,  taking  into  consideration  factors which include, but are not
 limited to, federal small business administration standards pursuant  to
 13 CFR part 121 and any amendments thereto. The director may issue regu-
 lations  on  the  construction  of  the  terms  in  this definition. FOR
 PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AN EMPLOYEE MAY BREAK FROM EMPLOYMENT  FOR
 UP  TO  THIRTEEN WEEKS WITHOUT THE FIFTY-TWO WEEK LOOKBACK PERIOD RESET-
 TING.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
 ments  to  subdivision  20  of  section 310 of the executive law made by
 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section  and
 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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