Int. No. 188
By Council Members Malave-Dilan, Freed, Robles, Linares, Fisher, Watkins, Eisland, Henry, White and Wooten; also Council Members Carrion, Clarke, Cruz, Eldridge, McCaffrey and O'Donovan - read and referred to the Committee on Contracts.
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to adding information on minority- and woman-owned business enterprises to the City's contract database.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision a of section 6-116.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 9, to read as follows:
(9) whether the contract has been awarded to a contractor certified by the department of business services as a minority- or woman-owned business enterprise; and, if so certified as a minority- owned business enterprise, whether the ownership of the contractor is predominantly by African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, or Native Americans, as defined in the public authorities law.
§2. This local law shall take effect 45 days after its adoption.