Bill Text: NY A01177 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that self employment activities, for the purposes of unemployment, shall include training and counseling on establishing a business; directs development centers and entrepreneurship support centers to track the outcomes in establishing businesses for program participants; directs the department of economic development to conduct a regional analysis of the effectiveness of self-employment sponsored businesses and business activity; extends from December 7, 2017 to December 7, 2019, the expiration of the self-employment assistance program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - print number 1177a [A01177 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01177-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1177--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 8, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on  Labor  in  accordance
          with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation  to  requiring
          development  centers and entrepreneurship support centers to track the
          success of program participants; to amend the labor law,  in  relation
          to self employment activities for the purposes of unemployment claims;
          and  to  amend chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, amending the labor law
          relating to the self-employment assistance program and other  matters,
          in relation to extending the expiration of the provisions thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 213 of  the  economic  development
     2  law,  as added by chapter 839 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. monitor the performance of each development center and each  entre-
     5  preneurship  support center and require periodic and annual reports from
     6  each development center and each entrepreneurship support center at such
     7  time and in such a manner as prescribed by  the  commissioner,  provided
     8  that  such  periodic  and  annual  reports  shall provide information on
     9  outcomes, whether successful or not, for all individual program  partic-
    10  ipants  of   each development center or entrepreneurship support center,
    11  and track such outcomes on a statistical basis for a  period  of  up  to
    12  five  years so as to help ascertain, track and document the success rate
    13  for such participants;
    14    § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section  213  of  the  economic
    15  development  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  227 of the laws of 1993, is
    16  amended to read as follows:
    17    (b) in the case of entrepreneurship support  centers,  the  extent  to
    18  which the program serves minorities, women, individuals with a disabili-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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