---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or critical need"
description: "Relates to the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or critical need; changes such maximum from three hundred employees to three hundred employees who work thirty or more hours per week over the period of fifty-two weeks for a total of 1,560 hours worked."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 1873"
citation: "New York S 1873 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lea Webb"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-12-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfba24a7-f420-4069-82dc-67e78f3eb8c1"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S1873"
source_hash: "f3aae77de49deda059ab02093846ec0c00962efa4b812dc78edc0fa11a175640"
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 1873 (2023-2024) — Relates to the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or critical need

Relates to the maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency or other emergency or critical need; changes such maximum from three hundred employees to three hundred employees who work thirty or more hours per week over the period of fifty-two weeks for a total of 1,560 hours worked.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S1873** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S1873&term=2023&Text=Y)
2. **S1873A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S1873A)

## Votes

- Procurement And Contracts Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **143–4** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **60–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lea Webb — primary (person)
- Monica Martinez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-17** REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** 1ST REPORT CAL.181
- **2023-01-24** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2023-01-25** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2023-02-07** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-02-07** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-02-07** REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-22** RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
- **2023-05-22** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-05-22** VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
- **2023-05-22** AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 1873A `amendment-passage`
- **2023-05-30** REPASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-05-30** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-05-30** REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-06** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7295A
- **2023-06-06** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.607
- **2023-06-06** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-06** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-11-29** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-12-08** SIGNED CHAP.700 `executive-signature`
- **2023-12-08** APPROVAL MEMO.46

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfba24a7-f420-4069-82dc-67e78f3eb8c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).