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legislation/us/states/ny/2025-2026/s-596.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise"
+description: "Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise if there is no change in the ownership of the enterprise and no material change in the nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval of the previous minority and women-owned business enterprise certification."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "S 596"
+citation: "New York S 596 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michelle Hinchey"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-12-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4ab358f-5d8a-467d-9f78-b90487144f12"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S596"
+source_hash: "084d2f87cfb2a218f4e56cc46a861ebda6a73bd16f20c9cccb5ed1df677572e0"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 596 (2025-2026) — Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise
+
+Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise if there is no change in the ownership of the enterprise and no material change in the nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval of the previous minority and women-owned business enterprise certification.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S596** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S596&term=2025&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **146–0** (pass) · lower
+- Procurement And Contracts Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Vote — **57–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michelle Hinchey — primary (person)
+- Dean Murray — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Cooney — cosponsor (person)
+- Kevin S. Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Lea Webb — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathalia Fernandez — cosponsor (person)
+- Pamela Helming — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** 1ST REPORT CAL.555
+- **2025-03-19** 2ND REPORT CAL.
+- **2025-03-20** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
+- **2025-05-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-05-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-05-13** REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-29** SUBSTITUTED FOR A2296
+- **2025-05-29** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.298
+- **2025-05-29** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-05-29** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.669 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-12-19** APPROVAL MEMO.50
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4ab358f-5d8a-467d-9f78-b90487144f12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+