Assembly Bill A8563

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; limits such provisions to declared state disasters

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Current Bill Status - 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-A8563 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8027
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §310, Exec L (as proposed in S.1873-A & A.7295-A)

2023-A8563 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes technical changes to provisions relating to maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency.

2023-A8563 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8563
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, relating 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,  in relation to limiting such provisions to declared state
   disasters
 
   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
 amended by a chapter of the laws of  2023  amending  the  executive  law
 relating  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, as proposed in legisla-
 tive bills numbers S. 1873-A and  A.  7295-A,  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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06521-04-4

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