File #: Int 1076-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring the inclusion of businesses owned by persons of Middle Eastern and North African descent in future disparity studies.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Contracts
On agenda: 10/10/2024
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 Cabán, Julie Menin, Kamillah Hanks, Yusef Salaam, Lincoln Restler, Alexa Avilés, Amanda Farías, Oswald Feliz, Chi A. Ossé, Justin L. Brannan, Rita C. Joseph, Chris Banks
Council Member Sponsors: 14
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. 1076, 2. Int. No. 1076, 3. October 10, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-10-24

Int. No. 1076

 

By Council Members Hanif, Won, Cabán, Menin, Hanks, Salaam, Restler, Avilés, Farías, Feliz, Ossé, Brannan, Joseph and Banks

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 12

ARP

LS #14377

10/30/2023