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: Laid Over in 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 L. Cabán, Julie Menin, Kamillah Hanks, Yusef Salaam, Lincoln Restler, Alexa Avilés, Amanda C. Farías, Oswald J. Feliz, Chi A. Ossé, Justin L. Brannan, Rita C. Joseph, Chris Banks, Crystal Hudson, Kevin C. Riley
Council Member Sponsors: 16
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, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 10, 2024, 6. Committee Report 11/18/25, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 8. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 9. Hearing Testimony 11/18/25
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11/18/2025*Shahana K. Hanif Committee on Small Business Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/18/2025*Shahana K. Hanif Committee on Small Business Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/18/2025*Shahana K. Hanif Committee on Women and Gender Equity Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/18/2025*Shahana K. Hanif Committee on Women and Gender Equity Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/18/2025*Shahana K. Hanif Committee on Contracts Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/18/2025*Shahana K. Hanif Committee on Contracts Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/10/2024*Shahana K. Hanif City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/10/2024*Shahana K. Hanif City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1076

 

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

 

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