Bill Text: NY A04384 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the empire state development corporation to develop a public awareness campaign promoting personal protective clothing and equipment manufacturing businesses located in New York state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-19 - substituted by s30 [A04384 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04384-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4384

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Economic Development

        AN ACT authorizing the empire state development corporation to develop a
          public  awareness  campaign promoting personal protective clothing and
          equipment manufacturing businesses located in New York state

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. 1. For purposes of this act, the term:
     2    a.  "personal  protective  clothing and equipment" shall mean clothing
     3  and equipment  worn  for  protection  against  illness  from  infectious
     4  disease  or  materials or to help prevent or reduce the spread of infec-
     5  tious disease or illness. Personal  protective  clothing  and  equipment
     6  shall  include,  but  not  be limited to, isolation gowns and coveralls,
     7  gloves, facemasks, face shields and goggles; and
     8    b. "manufacturing business" shall mean any business that manufacturers
     9  personal protective clothing and equipment that is located and  operated
    10  in New York state.
    11    2.  The  empire state development corporation shall develop, establish
    12  and implement a public awareness campaign promoting manufacturing  busi-
    13  nesses  and  encouraging individuals and businesses to purchase products
    14  from such manufacturing businesses.
    15    3. The campaign shall include an internet website  providing  informa-
    16  tion on manufacturing businesses and their available products, including
    17  a  Buy  New  York  Personal  Protective  Clothing  and  Equipment Online
    18  Networking Directory. The owner of any manufacturing business may  apply
    19  to  the empire state development corporation to have his or her manufac-
    20  turing business included in such directory. The directory shall include,
    21  but not be limited to, participating  manufacturing  businesses'  names,
    22  addresses,  contact information, including telephone number, fax, e-mail
    23  and website address, products offered with a brief description, and  any
    24  additional information, including history, hours and dates of operation,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03342-01-1
        A. 4384                             2

     1  and  number  of employees. The names of manufacturing businesses partic-
     2  ipating in such directory shall  be  organized  by  specific  categories
     3  based on the various types of personal protective clothing and/or equip-
     4  ment that such manufacturing businesses provide. Such directory shall be
     5  searchable  by  such  specific  categories.  Such  directory  shall also
     6  include a search capability to  allow  for  participating  manufacturing
     7  businesses  to  be searched by the types of personal protective clothing
     8  and/or equipment they offer.
     9    4. The public awareness campaign shall be made available to the public
    10  by any means deemed appropriate by the empire state  development  corpo-
    11  ration  including, but not limited to, internet, radio, and print adver-
    12  tising such as brochures, billboards and posters. The campaign may  also
    13  identify and recruit individuals to serve as visible, public ambassadors
    14  to promote this message.
    15    5.  The  empire state development corporation shall conspicuously post
    16  on its official website any incentives available to manufacturing  busi-
    17  nesses and purchasers of personal protective clothing and equipment.
    18    6. The campaign shall begin no later than ninety days after the effec-
    19  tive  date  of  this act. The empire state development corporation shall
    20  prepare an annual report to the governor and the legislature within  one
    21  year  after  this act shall have become a law and thereafter annually on
    22  or before December first of each year on the public awareness  campaign,
    23  including: (a) actions taken by the empire state development corporation
    24  to  carry out the public awareness campaign and (b) an assessment of the
    25  necessary appropriations for the empire state development corporation to
    26  meet the needs of the campaign in the next fiscal year.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.