S 8291 — Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including MWBEs, to participate in state contracts
Congress · introduced 2025-05-30
Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises, to participate in state contracts.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_SENATE_COMM
Sponsors
- James Sanders Jr. (—, NY-10) — sponsor · 2025-05-30
Action timeline
- · senate — REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS
- · senate — REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS
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Inbound (1)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-30 | James Sanders Jr. | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Sanders Jr. (—, state_upper NY-10) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
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- 2025-05-30 · sponsored by James Sanders Jr. (sponsor) · sponsorship