Bill Text: NY A04923 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires industrial development agencies to only include jobs filled by residents of New York state when assessing the progress of projects that are provided financial assistance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to local governments [A04923 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04923-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4923

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DeSTEFANO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          industrial  development  agencies to only include jobs filled by resi-
          dents of New York  state  when  assessing  the  progress  of  projects
          provided financial assistance

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 4  of  section  859-a  of  the
     2  general  municipal  law, as added by chapter 563 of the laws of 2015, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (f) the projected number of full time equivalent jobs  that  would  be
     5  retained  and that would be created if the request for financial assist-
     6  ance is granted, the projected timeframe for the creation of  new  jobs,
     7  the  estimated  salary and fringe benefit averages or ranges for catego-
     8  ries of the jobs that would be retained or created if  the  request  for
     9  financial  assistance  is  granted,  [and]  an estimate of the number of
    10  residents of the economic development region as established pursuant  to
    11  section  two hundred thirty of the economic development law or the labor
    12  market area as defined by the agency, in which the  project  is  located
    13  that  would  fill  such  jobs,  and  a statement acknowledging that jobs
    14  filled by non-residents of New York state shall  not  be  included  when
    15  assessing  the  progress toward achieving the objectives of the project.
    16  The labor market area defined by the agency for this purpose may include
    17  no more than six contiguous counties in the state, including the  county
    18  in which the project is to be located;
    19    §  2.  Paragraph  (b) of subdivision 6 of section 859-a of the general
    20  municipal law, as added by chapter 563 of the laws of 2015,  is  amended
    21  to read as follows:
    22    (b)  require each project owner, occupant or operator receiving finan-
    23  cial benefits to provide annually a certified statement  and  documenta-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  tion:    (i)  enumerating the full time equivalent jobs retained and the
     2  full time equivalent jobs created, for New York state  residents,  as  a
     3  result  of  the  financial  assistance, by category, including full time
     4  equivalent  independent contractors or employees of independent contrac-
     5  tors that work at the project location, and  (ii)  indicating  that  the
     6  salary  and  fringe  benefit  averages  or ranges for categories of jobs
     7  retained and jobs created that was provided in the application is  still
     8  accurate  and  if  it is not still accurate, providing a revised list of
     9  salary and fringe benefit averages or  ranges  for  categories  of  jobs
    10  retained  and  jobs created.   For the purposes of this paragraph, posi-
    11  tions filled by non-residents of New York state shall not be included in
    12  the number of jobs retained or created.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law.