Bill Text: NY A00647 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to certain requirements for economic development grant recipients; requires the submission of enumerated information.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to economic development [A00647 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00647-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 647 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the economic development law and the state finance law, in relation to certain requirements for and restrictions on economic development grant recipients The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "jobs 2 protection act". 3 § 2. Subdivision 19 of section 100 of the economic development law is 4 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 5 (c) to adopt regulations in accordance with section eleven-a of the 6 state finance law, to establish the terms and conditions of repayment, 7 including specifying the conditions under which repayment may be 8 deferred, following a determination by the commission of a legitimate 9 hardship. 10 § 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 11-a to 11 read as follows: 12 § 11-a. Requirements for economic development grant recipients. 1. 13 Any person or business organization that receives an award or grant 14 through any economic development program, where such award or grant also 15 requires the creation of jobs, shall not reduce the number of employees 16 who were employed within the state at the time such person or business 17 organization accepted the financial assistance for five years after 18 receiving such assistance or during the term of the award or grant, 19 whichever is longer, unless the full amount of assistance is repaid to 20 the state and a penalty equal to five percent of the total assistance 21 received is paid to the state. As used in this section, the term "busi- 22 ness" shall include any division of a business or subsidiary institution 23 controlled, directly or indirectly, by another institution. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04771-01-9A. 647 2 1 2. The commissioner of economic development shall consult with the 2 commissioner of the department of environmental conservation to deter- 3 mine whether an applicant for an economic development grant has been 4 found to be in violation of any laws, rules or regulations of the 5 department. 6 3. No applicant shall be awarded an economic development grant if such 7 applicant has been fined more than ten thousand dollars, in the aggre- 8 gate, for violations by the occupational safety and health adminis- 9 tration within the ten years preceding the time of application. 10 4. Applicants for economic development grants shall provide the 11 following information in connection with any application: (a) number and 12 types of full-time and part-time employees of the applicant and median 13 annual wage and benefit levels by job classification; (b) if applicable, 14 the number and types of full-time and part-time jobs originally commit- 15 ted, as per agreement with award requirements, and median annual wage 16 and benefit levels by job classification; (c) number of full-time and 17 part-time jobs retained to date; (d) number of full-time and part-time 18 temporary construction jobs created by applicant to date; (e) number of 19 full-time and part-time non-construction jobs created by applicant to 20 date; (f) median annual wage and benefit levels by job classification of 21 full-time and part-time, construction and non-construction jobs created 22 and retained to date; (g) actual date of hire for construction and non- 23 construction jobs; (h)(1) number and percent of total jobs created to 24 date of New York residents, separated by construction and non-construc- 25 tion employees; (2) number and percent of total jobs created to date of 26 local residents, defined as those residing within the metropolitan 27 statistical area (MSA), micropolitan statistical area (MiSA), or county 28 not within an MSA or MiSA, in which a project occurs, separated by 29 construction and non-construction employees; (i) recipient use of union 30 construction apprenticeship programs or any other local workforce devel- 31 opment program, original and to date; (j) whether or not the applicant 32 complied with each aspect of the state smart growth public infrastruc- 33 ture policy act; (k) the benchmarks for the current reporting year; (l) 34 whether or not the applicant has met each benchmark and if not, the 35 financial assistance amount the state has recaptured during the current 36 year and to date; and (m) whether the application has a subsidy recap- 37 ture provision. 38 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.