New York A 7173: Modernizes the metropolitan transportation authority's small business mentoring program

Status: REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: A 7173

Sponsors: Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn

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A07173 Summary:

BILL NOA07173 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04975

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SPONSORBichotte Hermelyn

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§1209 & 1265-a, Pub Auth L

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Increases the threshold for office of the comptroller review of the metropolitan transportation authority discretionary awards to MWBEs and small businesses from one million dollars to one million five hundred thousand dollars.

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BILL NOA07173 

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03/21/2025referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

01/07/2026referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7173

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 21, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to modernizing
 the metropolitan transportation authority's 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. Subdivision 15 of section 1209 of the public authorities
 2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
 3 (c) Subdivision one of section twenty-eight hundred seventy-nine-a of
 4 this chapter shall only apply to authority contracts with an estimated
 5 value greater than one million five hundred thousand dollars.
 6 § 2. Subdivision 10 of section 1265-a of the public authorities law is
 7 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
 8 (c) Subdivision one of section twenty-eight hundred seventy-nine-a of
 9 this chapter shall only apply to authority contracts with an estimated
 10 value greater than one million five hundred thousand dollars.
 11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06022-01-5

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