---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to construction and mentoring programs"
description: "Relates to construction and mentoring programs; provides that an agency may establish a mentoring program for small businesses in construction trades; directs the New York city housing authority to establish and implement reasonable procedures to secure meaningful participation of minority and women owned enterprises and small businesses in its procurement process; provides the New York city health and hospitals corporation to use the same measures to enhance mentoring opportunities for small businesses as are available to the city of New York."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 7526"
citation: "New York S 7526 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leroy Comrie"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-06-02"
last_action: "2023-10-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a45df39-dc6b-4f40-9c04-eb7210e56df9"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7526"
source_hash: "d29cea5ebc5c4e3c8ae66e8e37ca88ad1e1f31329b62373f588ed34ab74e24cb"
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 7526 (2023-2024) — Relates to construction and mentoring programs

Relates to construction and mentoring programs; provides that an agency may establish a mentoring program for small businesses in construction trades; directs the New York city housing authority to establish and implement reasonable procedures to secure meaningful participation of minority and women owned enterprises and small businesses in its procurement process; provides the New York city health and hospitals corporation to use the same measures to enhance mentoring opportunities for small businesses as are available to the city of New York.

## Version chain

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

1. **S7526** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7526&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leroy Comrie — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-02** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-05** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1614
- **2023-06-05** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-06-05** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-06-05** REFERRED TO CITIES `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-10** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7673A
- **2023-06-10** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.845
- **2023-06-10** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2023-06-10** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-10** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-10-13** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-10-25** SIGNED CHAP.604 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a45df39-dc6b-4f40-9c04-eb7210e56df9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).