Bill Text: NY A10620 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the Empire State Development Corporation to allow small businesses, nonprofits, and landlords impacted by 2020 demonstrations and related civil unrest involving property damage, vandalism, and theft or vandalism for unknown reasons to be eligible for loans under the New York Forward Loan Fund.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - print number 10620a [A10620 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10620-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10620--A IN ASSEMBLY June 10, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Sayegh, Griffin, Paulin, Bronson, Galef, Byrne, Giglio) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT directing the Empire State Development Corporation to allow small businesses, nonprofits, and landlords impacted by 2020 civil rights demonstrations and related civil unrest involving property damage, vandalism, and theft or vandalism for unknown reasons to be eligible for loans under the New York Forward Loan Fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The Empire State Development Corporation is authorized and 2 directed to allow small businesses as defined in section 131 of the 3 economic development law, organizations organized under the non-profit 4 or not-for-profit laws of this state, and possessing a federal tax 5 exemption under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of the 6 United States, and landlords impacted by: (a) the 2020 demonstrations 7 and related civil unrest which began on May 27, 2020 involving property 8 damage, vandalism, and theft; or (b) vandalism for unknown reasons to be 9 eligible for loans under the New York Forward Loan Fund. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16613-03-0