Legislation Details

File #: Int 0208-2026    Version: * Name: Requiring the inclusion of businesses owned by persons of Middle Eastern and North African descent in future disparity studies.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Contracts
On agenda: 1/29/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to requiring the inclusion of businesses owned by persons of Middle Eastern and North African descent in future disparity studies
Sponsors: Shahana K. Hanif, Julie Won, Tiffany L. Cabán, Kamillah Hanks, Yusef Salaam, Lincoln Restler, Alexa Avilés, Amanda C. Farías, Oswald J. Feliz, Farah N. Louis, Crystal Hudson, Kayla Santosuosso
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Summary: This bill would require the inclusion of businesses owned by persons of Middle Eastern and North African descent in any future disparity study conducted for the purpose of determining eligibility for certification in the City’s Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise program.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 208, 2. Int. No. 208, 3. January 29, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 1-29-26, 5. Memorandum in Support, 6. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 7. Committee Report 9/23/26
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
9/23/2026*Shahana K. Hanif Committee on Contracts Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/23/2026*Shahana K. Hanif Committee on Contracts Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/29/2026*Shahana K. Hanif City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/29/2026*Shahana K. Hanif City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 208

 

By Council Members Hanif, Won, Cabán, Hanks, Salaam, Restler, Avilés, Farías, Feliz, Louis, Hudson and Santosuosso

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to requiring the inclusion of businesses owned by persons of Middle Eastern and North African descent in future disparity studies

 

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 is amended to read as follows:

(26) “Minority group” means Black Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, [and] Native Americans, and Middle Eastern and North African 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. For the purposes of this paragraph, the term “Middle Eastern and North African Americans” means American persons having origins in any of the original peoples of the Middle East or North Africa.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LS #14377

Int. 1076-2024

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