Bill Text: NY A07798 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7798 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishes entrepreneurship assistance centers to provide assistance to primarily minority group members, women, individuals with a disability and dislocated workers and veterans; requires the department of economic development to establish criteria and designation of such centers; sets forth requirements for each center.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-18 - REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS [A07798 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07798-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7798--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 27, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Small  Business  -- ordered to a third reading -- committed to the
          Committee on Small Business in accordance  with  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  entrepreneurship assistance centers; to amend the economic devel-
          opment law  and  the  labor  law,  in  relation  to  making  technical
          corrections  relating thereto; and to repeal article 9 of the economic
          development law relating thereto
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Article 9 of the economic development law is REPEALED and a
     2  new article 9 is added to read as follows:
     3                                  ARTICLE 9
     4                     ENTREPRENEURSHIP ASSISTANCE CENTERS
     5  Section 210. Definitions.
     6          211. Entrepreneurship assistance centers.
     7          212. Reporting.
     8    §  210.  Definitions.  As  used  in  this article the following terms,
     9  unless the context indicates otherwise, shall have the  following  mean-
    10  ings:
    11    1.  "Entrepreneurship  assistance  centers"  shall  mean  the business
    12  development centers which provide assistance to primarily minority group
    13  members, women, individuals with a disability,  dislocated  workers  and
    14  veterans  as  established  by  the  department  pursuant  to section two
    15  hundred eleven of this article.
    16    2. "Disability" shall mean, with respect to an individual:
    17    (a) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits  one  or
    18  more of the major life activities of such individual;
    19    (b) a record of such an impairment; or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07929-02-6