S8291 • 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

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Sponsor: James Sanders Jr.
Last action: 2026-06-02
Official status: Senate Floor Calendar
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

2026-06-02 Senate
SUBSTITUTED BY A7125
2026-05-20 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-19 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-18 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1154
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS
2025-05-30 Senate
REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS

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.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8291

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 30, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts

        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