Bill Text: NY A05425 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the economic development performance review act; prescribes the functions and purposes of the special evaluation program bond act; requires state agencies involved in economic development activities to prepare an annual comprehensive performance review of their programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-26 - reported referred to ways and means [A05425 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05425-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Economic Development -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Envi-
          ronmental  Conservation  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 establish-
          ing the economic development performance review act

          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  article 15 to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 15
     4                 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE REVIEW ACT
     5  Section 270. Definition.
     6          271. Program implementation.
     7          272. Performance review.
     8    § 270. Definition. For purposes of this article, "economic development
     9  program" shall mean a program that provides services for the purpose  of
    10  effecting  the  economic  conditions  of the state, provides training or
    11  employment  services,  supports  an  economic  development  activity  by
    12  enhancing  the skills of the state's workforce, prepares individuals for
    13  employment, improves opportunities for individuals to  become  employed,
    14  or promotes the state economy.
    15    § 271. Program implementation. 1. On or before September first, in the
    16  year  after  this section became law, each state agency administratively
    17  responsible for economic development activities shall prepare a separate
    18  plan for each program that such  agency  administers.  Each  plan  shall
    19  include a description of proposed program activities, a description of a
    20  mechanism for funding distribution, program objectives, population to be
    21  served, institutions eligible to receive funds, and a description of the
    22  coordination  and linkages between this program and other program activ-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04682-02-2
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     1  ities funded separately. Such plan  shall  also  include  a  performance
     2  review  component  as  part  of the implementation of each program which
     3  shall describe how the agency will  monitor  the  delivery  of  services
     4  under the program and which shall set forth the measure of effectiveness
     5  of the services being provided.
     6    2.  Program plans shall be submitted to the department, the speaker of
     7  the assembly and the temporary president of the senate, for  review  and
     8  comment.
     9    3.  The  provisions  of  this section shall not exempt any agency from
    10  requirements relating to the preparation and submission of program plans
    11  pursuant to any other provision of law.
    12    § 272. Performance review. 1.   The performance  review  component  of
    13  each program plan shall, at a minimum, include the following:
    14    (a) a statement on legislative history and intent;
    15    (b)  a  statement  of  program  objectives  which  identifies outcomes
    16  attributable to the program, anticipated performance levels, and indica-
    17  tors of the effectiveness of the program;
    18    (c) defined quantitative measures which will be included  as  part  of
    19  the   performance  review  report  including,  but  not  limited  to,  a
    20  description  of  the  targeted  population,  criteria  for   participant
    21  selection,  demographics  on participants, measures of program activity,
    22  inventory of services provided, and budget information on  programs  and
    23  administrative  expenditures  including,  but  not limited to, costs per
    24  participant.  For those programs where an objective  is  job  placement,
    25  data  shall  include  information  on the occupations which participants
    26  enter, the rate of job retention, pre-program wage  earnings  and  post-
    27  program  wage earnings as well as other appropriate measures which indi-
    28  cate the extent to which program  activities  meet  program  objectives.
    29  Other  performance  indicators that appropriately describe the effect of
    30  the program and data which reflects follow-up  activity  appropriate  to
    31  the  services provided shall also be included as part of the performance
    32  review report;
    33    (d) a statement of methodology which will result in  a  comparison  of
    34  program outcomes against program objectives; and
    35    (e)  any  additional  performance  review  or  information  as  may be
    36  required by law.
    37    2. (a) The performance review report for each program shall be submit-
    38  ted to the commissioner for review and recommendation.
    39    (b) The report shall include, at a minimum, all program  data  and  an
    40  analysis  which compares performance outcomes against program objectives
    41  as specified in the performance review component  of  the  program  plan
    42  defined  herein  and  shall include a performance review of activity for
    43  the completed program year immediately preceding  the  issuance  of  the
    44  report  and an interim performance review of current program year activ-
    45  ity if applicable.
    46    3. Based on the review conducted pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivi-
    47  sion two of this section, the department shall prepare a unified summary
    48  of performance review reports submitted by each agency pursuant to  this
    49  article  for submission to the speaker of the assembly and the temporary
    50  president of the senate no later than January thirty-first, two thousand
    51  twenty-three and  each  year  thereafter  provided,  however,  that  the
    52  department  shall  make  available  each  individual program performance
    53  review report submitted pursuant to this article  upon  request  of  the
    54  legislature.  The  department  shall include in such summary recommenda-
    55  tions to the governor and the legislature relating to  improved  program
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     1  coordination  and service delivery, program improvements or enhancements
     2  and necessary statutory changes.
     3    4.  The  provisions  of  this section shall not exempt any agency from
     4  requirements pursuant to any other provision of law.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.