New York S 8323: Expands the small business mentoring program

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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8323
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 2, 2025
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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) [ ] means the [ ] of the authority"chairman" "chair" chairman chair
16 and its subsidiaries and affiliates;
17 (c) "small business" means a business [ ]in the construction trades
18 which (i)that performs contracts for construction or related services
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 ] in consultation with the members of the MTA small businessman chair
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 (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 authority shall establish a detailedin the construction trades, the
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 [ ] contracts public work for public work or
16 to be designated by the authority for inclusion in thisrelated services
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 assistance in competing for and managing authority [ ]public work
22 contracts ; andfor public work or related services
23 (ii) for a small business mentoring program participant which the
24 authority has determined has successfully completed the program under
25 subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, for up to five additional years, (A)
26 additional opportunities to compete with other designated small busi-
27 nesses in the program for certain [ ] contracts public work for public
28 to be designated for inclusion under thiswork or related services
29 subparagraph and, where awarded, to perform such authority [ ]public work
30 contracts , with the further assist-for public work or related services
31 ance of an authority-provided mentor, which shall be a firm competitive-
32 ly selected by the authority that has extensive construction management
33 and mentoring experience, with the mentor to provide the small business
34 with advice and technical assistance in competing for and managing
35 authority [ ] contracts ,public work for public work or related services
36 and (B) authority-provided assistance, as determined by the authority,
37 for such a small business to obtain bonding for public work contracts
38 that are competitively awarded pursuant to prov