The New York City Council - File #: Int 1293-2018

• File #: Int 1293-2018
• Version: B
• Name: Minority and women-owned business enterprises.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• Committee: Committee on Contracts
• On agenda: 12/11/2018
• Enactment date: 10/13/2019
• Law number: 2019/174
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to minority and women-owned business enterprises
• Sponsors: Deborah L. Rose, Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Justin L. Brannan, Diana I. Ayala, Stephen T. Levin, Helen K. Rosenthal, Adrienne E. Adams, Andy L. King, Ben Kallos, Margaret S. Chin, Brad S. Lander, Farah N. Louis, I. Daneek Miller, Carlina Rivera
• Council Member Sponsors: 14
• Summary: This bill would amend the definition of “Minority group” for purposes of the city’s Minority and Women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs) program to include Native Americans in all covered procurement categories and Asian Americans in the professional services category. The bill would also update citywide procurement goals for all minority groups across all procurement categories in accordance with the findings in the most recent citywide disparity study.
• Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result
10/15/2019	B	Deborah L. Rose	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
10/13/2019	B	Deborah L. Rose	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
9/12/2019	B	Deborah L. Rose	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
9/12/2019	B	Deborah L. Rose	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
9/12/2019	*	Deborah L. Rose	Committee on Contracts	Amendment Proposed by Comm
9/12/2019	*	Deborah L. Rose	Committee on Contracts	Hearing Held by Committee
9/12/2019	B	Deborah L. Rose	Committee on Contracts	Approved by Committee	Pass
9/12/2019	*	Deborah L. Rose	Committee on Contracts	Amended by Committee
6/20/2019	*	Deborah L. Rose	Committee on Contracts	Laid Over by Committee
6/20/2019	*	Deborah L. Rose	Committee on Contracts	Hearing Held by Committee
6/20/2019	*	Deborah L. Rose	Committee on Contracts	Amendment Proposed by Comm
12/11/2018	*	Deborah L. Rose	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
12/11/2018	*	Deborah L. Rose	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1293-B

By Council Members Rose, Cornegy, Brannan, Ayala, Levin, Rosenthal, Adams, King, Kallos, Chin, Lander, Louis, Miller and Rivera

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to minority and women-owned business enterprises

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Paragraph 26 of subdivision c of section 6-129 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 1 for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows:

(26) “Minority group” means Black Americans[;], Asian Americans, [and] Hispanic Americans and Native Americans, provided that the commissioner shall be authorized to add additional groups to this definition upon a finding that there is statistically significant disparity between the availability of firms owned by individuals in such a group and the utilization of such firms in city procurement.

§ 2. Subdivision d of Section 6-129 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 1 for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows:

d. Citywide goals. (1) The citywide contracting participation goals for MBEs, WBEs and EBEs, which may be met through awards of prime contracts or subcontracts as described in subdivision j of this section, shall be as follows:

For construction contracts:

Category:	Participation goal:
Black Americans	[8]12% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Asian Americans	[8]11.1% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Hispanic Americans	[4]17.95% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Native Americans	0.56% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Women	[18]25.66% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Emerging	6% of total annual agency expenditures  on such contracts

For professional services contracts:

Category:	Participation goal:
Black Americans	[12]11.81% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Asian Americans	9.4% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Hispanic Americans	[8]8.99% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Native Americans	0.65% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Women	[37]36.67% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Emerging	6% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts

For standard services contracts:

Category:	Participation goal:
Black Americans	[12]14.32% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Asian Americans	[3]9.88% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Hispanic Americans	[6]10.2% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Native Americans	0.03% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Women	[10]29.26% of total annual agency expenditures  on such contracts
Emerging	6% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts

For goods contracts under one [hundred thousand] million dollars:

Category:	Participation goal:
Black Americans	[7]5.94% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Asian Americans	[8]10.59% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Hispanic Americans	[5]7.07% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Native Americans	2.44% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Women	[25]30.51% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts
Emerging	6% of total annual agency expenditures on such contracts

§ 3. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law, except that the department of small business services shall take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, before such date.

DFC/ARP

LS # 8358, 8375, 9052

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