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S 8885Includes "people with disabilities" within the definition of "minority"

Congress · introduced 2026-01-13

Requires the definition of "minority" to include "people with disabilities" pursuant to the Human Rights law in order for such people with disabilities to be eligible for state contract set asides.

Latest action: 2026-01-13 IN_SENATE_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · senate REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS

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Inbound (2)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2026-01-13William Webersponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship
2026-01-13Steve Rhoadscosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship

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.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1William Weber (, state_upper NY-38)sponsor05
2Steve Rhoads (, state_upper NY-5)cosponsor01

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

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2026-01-13 · cosponsored by Steve Rhoads (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2026-01-13 · sponsored by William Weber (sponsor) · sponsorship

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