NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7116
SPONSOR: Bichotte Hermelyn TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to reports on agency
minority and women-owned business development contracts and spending
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this bill is to report on minority and women-owned busi-
ness development contracts and spending, which will be published by• the
State Comptroller on an annual basis.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 would require the State comptroller to report on agency
minority and women-owned business development contracts and spending.
Such report shall be interactive for its users as an online transparency
tool, including an intuitive dashboard approach that combines a series
of graphs and user friendly tables. Such report shall include the amount
of money contracted to each state agency and shall be further broken
down into the following four categories: Asian American, Black Ameri-
can, Hispanic American, and women. It will also include the number of
prime contractors, subcontractors, as well as the contract values given
to each prime contractors and subcontractors. All reportable data shall
be published annually by fiscal and calendar year and shall provide for
comparison between years.
JUSTIFICATION:
The purpose of this bill is to require the State Comptroller to annually
share and publish MWBE data with the public in an interactive and acces-
sible way and will be broken down by contract amount given to each state
agency, and further broken down by race and gender. It will also include
the number of prime contractors, number of subcontractors, and contract
values given to each prime, and subcontractor. Lastly, it will provide a
comparison of data between years to see how the, data is trending.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
01/03/24 referred to governmental operations
02/08/23 referred to governmental operations
2021-22: A06088, referred to government operations
2019-2020: A1540; Referred to government operations
2017-2018: A427; Referred to government operations
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7116
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, WILLIAMS, GIBBS -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to reports on agency
minority and women-owned business development contracts and spending
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
2 8-d to read as follows:
3 § 8-d. Report on agency minority and women-owned business development
4 contracts and spending. The comptroller is hereby authorized and
5 directed to publish, and make publicly available on its website, a
6 report on agency minority and women-owned business development contracts
7 and spending. Such report shall be interactive for its users, as an
8 online transparency tool, including an intuitive dashboard approach that
9 combines a series of graphs and user-friendly tables, that provides
10 access to subcontractor and minority and women-owned business enterprise
11 spending and contract information pursuant to this section. Such report
12 shall include the amount of money contracted to each state agency and
13 such amount shall be further broken down into the following four catego-
14 ries: Asian American, Black American, Hispanic American, and women.
15 Such report shall also include the total number of prime contractors and
16 subcontractors used as well as the amount of money spent on each
17 contract or contracts. All reportable data shall be published annually
18 by fiscal and calendar year and shall provide for comparison between
19 years. The website shall feature the current calendar and fiscal year
20 report information and archive all previous calendar and fiscal year
21 reports, beginning with the year two thousand seventeen, which shall be
22 easy for users to access. The website shall be developed and designed
23 to allow users to search various combinations of data requests in a
24 single report, with the ability to disaggregate data. The comptroller
25 shall consult with the comptroller of New York city regarding the devel-
26 opment and design of the website and shall provide comparable report and
27 data organization for its website.
28 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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