STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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 Article 9 of the economic development law is REPEALED and a 2 new article 9 is added to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 9 4 ENTREPRENEURSHIP ASSISTANCE CENTERS 5 Section 210.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