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A7125 • 2025

Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including MWBEs, to participate in state contracts

Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including MWBEs, to participate in state contracts

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Sponsor
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
Last action
2026-06-02
Official status
Passed Senate
Effective date
Not listed

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Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including MWBEs, to participate in state contracts

Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including MWBEs, to participate in state contracts Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises, to participate in state contracts.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including MWBEs, to participate in state contracts Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises, to participate in state contracts.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-02 Senate

    SUBSTITUTED FOR S8291

  2. 2026-06-02 Senate

    3RD READING CAL.1154

  3. 2026-06-02 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  4. 2026-06-02 Senate

    RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

  5. 2026-03-05 Assembly

    PASSED ASSEMBLY

  6. 2026-03-05 Assembly

    DELIVERED TO SENATE

  7. 2026-03-05 Senate

    REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS

  8. 2026-01-07 Senate

    DIED IN SENATE

  9. 2026-01-07 Senate

    RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

  10. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.183

  11. 2025-06-09 Assembly

    REPORTED

  12. 2025-06-09 Assembly

    RULES REPORT CAL.514

  13. 2025-06-09 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.514

  14. 2025-06-09 Assembly

    PASSED ASSEMBLY

  15. 2025-06-09 Assembly

    DELIVERED TO SENATE

  16. 2025-06-09 Senate

    REFERRED TO RULES

  17. 2025-06-06 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

  18. 2025-05-27 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  19. 2025-03-20 Assembly

    REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Official Summary Text

Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including MWBEs, to participate in state contracts
Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises, to participate in state contracts.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7125

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     March 20, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BICHOTTE HERMELYN, SEAWRIGHT, HYNDMAN, COOK,
          WALKER, DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Govern-
          mental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the state finance law, in relation to requiring that
          public contracts be divided by size  into  large,  medium,  small  and
          micro  contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small
          businesses to participate in state contracts

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph c of subdivision 10 of section 163 of the state
     2  finance law, as amended by chapter 95 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    c. The commissioner or state agency may elect to award a  contract  to
     5  one  or more responsive and responsible offerers provided, however, that
     6  the basis for the selection among multiple  contracts  at  the  time  of
     7  purchase  shall  be  the  most  practical and economical alternative and
     8  shall be in the best interests of the state, and further  provided  that
     9  the  requirements  set  forth herein shall not preclude the commissioner
    10  from  establishing  multiple  award  contracts  for  reasons   including
    11  increased  opportunities  for  small  businesses to participate in state
    12  contracts. TO THE EXTENT FEASIBLE,  THE  COMMISSIONER  OR  STATE  AGENCY
    13  SHALL ENDEAVOR TO DIVIDE CONTRACTS BY SIZE INTO LARGE, MEDIUM, SMALL AND
    14  MICRO  CONTRACTS  FOR  THE PURPOSE OF INCREASING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALL
    15  BUSINESSES, INCLUDING MINORITY-OWNED  BUSINESS  ENTERPRISES  AND  WOMEN-
    16  OWNED  BUSINESS  ENTERPRISES  AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED TEN OF
    17  THE EXECUTIVE LAW, TO PARTICIPATE IN STATE CONTRACTS.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to paragraph c
    20  of  subdivision  10  of  section  163  of  the state finance law made by
    21  section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section  and
    22  shall be deemed repealed therewith.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10988-01-5