New York Laws
Article 15-A - Participation by Minority Group Members and Women With Respect to State Contracts
315 - Responsibilities of Contracting Agencies.

(a) assure that sufficient and effective solicitation efforts to women
and minority-owned business enterprises are being made by said agency;
(b) divide contract requirements, when economically feasible, into
quantities that will expand the participation of women and
minority-owned business enterprises;
(c) eliminate extended experience or capitalization requirements, when
programmatically and economically feasible, that will expand
participation by women and minority-owned business enterprises;
(d) identify specific proposed contracts as particularly attractive or
appropriate for participation by women and minority-owned business
enterprises with such identification to result from and be coupled with
the efforts of paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this subdivision; and
(e) upon a finding by the director that an agency has failed to take
affirmative measures to implement the remedial plan and to follow any of
the remedial actions set forth by the director, and in the absence of
any objective progress towards the agency's goals, require some or all

of the agency's procurement, for a specified period of time, be placed
under the direction and control of another agency or agencies.
* NB Repealed December 31, 2024