New York S 6515: Requires reporting on fraud regarding minority and women-owned business enterprises

Status: REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 6515

Sponsors: Cordell Cleare

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S06515 Summary:

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Requires a separate section in the annual report of the director of the division of minority and women's business development detailing every instance of an entity fraudulently representing itself as a minority and women-owned business enterprise when it was not.

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03/17/2025REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6515

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 17, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring reporting on
 fraud regarding minority and women-owned business enterprises

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section 311 of the execu-
 2 tive law, as amended by chapter 55 of the laws of 1992, is amended to
 3 read as follows:
 4 (e) on January first of each year report to the governor and the
 5 chairpersons of the senate finance and assembly ways and means commit-
 6 tees on the level of minority and women-owned business enterprises
 7 participating in each agency's contracts for goods and services and on
 8 activities of the office and effort by each contracting agency to
 9 promote employment of minority group members and women, and to promote
 10 and increase participation by certified businesses with respect to state
 11 contracts and subcontracts so as to facilitate the award of a fair share
 12 of state contracts to such businesses. The comptroller shall assist the
 13 division in collecting information on the participation of certified
 14 business for each contracting agency. Such report may recommend new
 15 activities and programs to effectuate the purposes of this article. Such
 16 report shall include a separate section detailing every instance of an
 17 entity fraudulently representing itself as a minority and women-owned
 18 business enterprise when it was not;
 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however that
 20 the amendments to section 311 of the executive law made by section one
 21 of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
 22 deemed repealed therewith.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10974-01-5

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