Bill Text: NY A04738 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of economic development, job development authority, and urban development corporation to provide preferences to small businesses and entrepreneurs in the administration of their economic development assistance programs; requires annual reports thereon.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-29 - reported referred to ways and means [A04738 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04738-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4738
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 8, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, JAFFEE -- read once and referred to
         the Committee on Economic Development
       AN ACT to amend the economic development law, the public authorities law
         and the New York state urban development corporation act, in  relation
         to providing a preference to small businesses and entrepreneurs in the
         award of state economic development assistance
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The economic development law is amended  by  adding  a  new
    2  section 101-a to read as follows:
    3    S  101-A.  PREFERENCES  TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS. IN EACH
    4  PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT  PURSUANT  TO  AN
    5  APPROPRIATION  OF  FUNDS, AND CONSISTENT WITH ANY STATUTE GOVERNING SUCH
    6  PROGRAM, PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE AWARD OF SUCH FUNDS  TO  SMALL
    7  BUSINESSES  AND ENTREPRENEURS. SUCH PREFERENCE SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE
    8  LIMITED TO, ACTIVE MARKETING OF THE PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY TO SMALL  BUSI-
    9  NESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS, PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUAL SMALL BUSI-
   10  NESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS IN ACCESSING AVAILABLE FUNDS UNDER THE PROGRAM,
   11  AND ESTABLISHING AND WORKING TO MEET THE GOAL OF AWARDING TWENTY PERCENT
   12  OF  AVAILABLE  FUNDS UNDER THE PROGRAM TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRE-
   13  NEURS. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "ENTREPRENEUR" SHALL  MEAN
   14  A  PERSON  WHO  ORGANIZES,  OPERATES, AND ASSUMES THE RISK OF A START-UP
   15  BUSINESS VENTURE. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL  INCLUDE  IN  THE  ANNUAL  REPORT
   16  REQUIRED  PURSUANT  TO SUBDIVISION THIRTY-SEVEN-A OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED
   17  OF THIS ARTICLE A DESCRIPTION OF  ACTIVITIES,  A  LISTING  OF  PROPOSALS
   18  RECEIVING  FINANCIAL  ASSISTANCE  PURSUANT  TO THIS SECTION AND IDENTIFY
   19  WHETHER THE TWENTY PERCENT GOAL WAS MET FOR EACH PROGRAM.
   20    S 2. Section 1823 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
   21  new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   22    8. IN EACH PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE AUTHORITY,  AND
   23  CONSISTENT  WITH ANY STATUTE GOVERNING SUCH PROGRAM, PREFERENCE SHALL BE
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  GIVEN TO THE AWARD OF SUCH FUNDS TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND  ENTREPRENEURS.
    2  SUCH  PREFERENCE  SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, ACTIVE MARKETING
    3  OF THE PROGRAM  SPECIFICALLY  TO  SMALL  BUSINESSES  AND  ENTREPRENEURS,
    4  PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUAL SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS IN
    5  ACCESSING  AVAILABLE FUNDS UNDER THE PROGRAM, AND ESTABLISHING AND WORK-
    6  ING TO MEET THE GOAL OF AWARDING TWENTY PERCENT OF AVAILABLE FUNDS UNDER
    7  THE PROGRAM TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS
    8  SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "SMALL BUSINESS" SHALL HAVE THE  SAME  MEANING  AS
    9  PROVIDED  IN  SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
   10  LAW AND THE TERM "ENTREPRENEUR" SHALL  MEAN  A  PERSON  OR  PERSONS  WHO
   11  ORGANIZES,  OPERATES,  AND  ASSUMES  THE  RISK  OF  A  START-UP BUSINESS
   12  VENTURE. THE AUTHORITY  SHALL  INCLUDE  IN  THE  ANNUAL  PROGRAM  REPORT
   13  REQUIRED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE-A OF THIS
   14  TITLE A DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES, A LISTING OF PROPOSALS PROVIDED  WITH
   15  FINANCIAL  ASSISTANCE  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION AND IDENTIFY WHETHER THE
   16  TWENTY PERCENT GOAL WAS MET FOR EACH PROGRAM.
   17    S 3. Section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968 constituting the New
   18  York state urban development corporation act is amended by adding a  new
   19  section 4-a to read as follows:
   20    S  4-A.    PREFERENCES TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS.  IN EACH
   21  PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE CORPORATION PURSUANT  TO  AN
   22  APPROPRIATION  OF  FUNDS, AND CONSISTENT WITH ANY STATUTE GOVERNING SUCH
   23  PROGRAM, PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE AWARD OF SUCH FUNDS  TO  SMALL
   24  BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS.  SUCH PREFERENCE SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE
   25  LIMITED  TO, ACTIVE MARKETING OF THE PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY TO SMALL BUSI-
   26  NESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS, PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUAL SMALL BUSI-
   27  NESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS IN ACCESSING AVAILABLE FUNDS UNDER THE PROGRAM,
   28  AND ESTABLISHING AND WORKING TO MEET THE GOAL OF AWARDING TWENTY PERCENT
   29  OF AVAILABLE FUNDS UNDER THE PROGRAM TO SMALL BUSINESSES  AND  ENTREPRE-
   30  NEURS.    FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "SMALL BUSINESS" SHALL
   31  HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 131 OF THE ECONOMIC  DEVEL-
   32  OPMENT  LAW  AND  THE TERM "ENTREPRENEUR" SHALL MEAN A PERSON OR PERSONS
   33  WHO ORGANIZES, OPERATES, AND ASSUMES THE RISK  OF  A  START-UP  BUSINESS
   34  VENTURE.  THE  CORPORATION  SHALL  INCLUDE  IN THE ANNUAL PROGRAM REPORT
   35  REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION THIRTY OF THIS ACT A DESCRIPTION OF  ACTIV-
   36  ITIES,  A LISTING OF PROPOSALS PROVIDED WITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PURSU-
   37  ANT TO THIS SECTION AND IDENTIFY WHETHER THE TWENTY PERCENT GOAL WAS MET
   38  FOR EACH PROGRAM.
   39    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.