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S08323 Summary:

BILL NOS08323 

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SAME ASSAME AS A08881

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SPONSORSANDERS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1265-b, Pub Auth L

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Expands the small business mentoring program to include contracts for construction or related services.

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BILL NOS08323 

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06/02/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8323

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 June 2, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to expanding the
 small business mentoring program

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 1265-b of the public authorities law, as added by
 2 chapter 206 of the laws of 2010, paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of subdivi-
 3 sion 1 as amended and subdivision 7 as added by chapter 574 of the laws
 4 of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
 5 § 1265-b. Metropolitan transportation authority small business mentor-
 6 ing program. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context
 7 requires otherwise: (a) "authority" means the metropolitan transporta-
 8 tion authority and its subsidiaries consisting of the Long Island rail
 9 road company, Metro-North commuter railroad company, metropolitan subur-
 10 ban bus authority, Staten Island rapid transit operating authority, MTA
 11 bus, MTA capital construction company, and first mutual transportation
 12 assurance company, and its affiliates consisting of the New York City
 13 transit authority, triborough bridge and tunnel authority, and Manhattan
 14 and Bronx surface transit operating authority;
 15 (b) ["chairman"] "chair" means the [chairman] chair of the authority
 16 and its subsidiaries and affiliates;
 17 (c) "small business" means a business [in the construction trades]
 18 that performs contracts for construction or related services which (i)
 19 is independently owned and operated; (ii) has annual revenues not
 20 exceeding a fiscal limitation of ten million dollars or such lesser
 21 amount as established by the authority pursuant to these provisions; and
 22 (iii) meets additional criteria as otherwise established by the [chair-
 23 man] chair in consultation with the members of the MTA small business
 24 mentoring program advisory committee. The chair of the committee shall
 25 be the chief diversity officer of the MTA. [The] With respect to firms

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13300-01-5

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 1 in the construction trades, the authority shall establish a detailed
 2 definition in general and specific to different segments of the
 3 construction industry to the extent necessary to reflect differing char-
 4 acteristics of such segments based on the criteria used by the United
 5 States small business administration for loans to small businesses as
 6 set forth in Sections 121.301 through 121.305, or for awarding govern-
 7 ment procurements as set forth in Sections 121.401 through 121.413, of
 8 Subpart A of Part 121 of Chapter I of Title 13 of the Code of Federal
 9 Regulations as amended, and such other criteria as determined by the
 10 authority;
 11 (d) "small business mentoring program" is a program established by the
 12 authority pursuant to these provisions to provide small businesses
 13 accepted into the program with the opportunity:
 14 (i) for up to five years, to compete for and, where awarded, to
 15 perform certain authority [public work] contracts for public work or
 16 related services to be designated by the authority for inclusion in this
 17 program under this subparagraph, with the assistance of an authority-
 18 provided mentor, which shall be a firm competitively selected by the
 19 authority that has extensive construction management and mentoring expe-
 20 rience, with the mentor to provide the small business with advice and
 21 assi