Bill Text: NY A02561 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring companies receiving funding under the economic development law to disclose the number of its employees having been issued an H1-B visa.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to economic development [A02561 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A02561-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2561 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 20, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LALOR, MONTESANO, RAIA, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McLAUGHLIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to company disclosure of employees having H1-B visas The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 47 of section 100 of the economic development 2 law, as renumbered by chapter 427 of the laws of 2008, is renumbered 3 subdivision 48 and a new subdivision 47 is added to read as follows: 4 47. The commissioner shall require any company receiving funding 5 pursuant to this chapter to disclose the number of its total employees 6 issued an H1-B visa by United States citizenship and immigration 7 services in the department of homeland security. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07025-01-7