Bill Text: NY S00579 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 579

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides an exception to qualification for the small business seed funding grant program for independent arts contractors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S00579 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00579-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           579

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to  amend chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the New
          York state urban development  corporation  act, in relation to provid-
          ing an exception to qualification for the small business seed  funding
          grant program

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (ii) of subdivision 4 of section 16-gg of section
     2  1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the  New  York  state
     3  urban development  corporation  act, as added by section 1 of part CC of
     4  chapter 58 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     5    (ii)  be a currently viable micro-business, small business, for-profit
     6  arts and cultural organization including  independent  arts  contractors
     7  that  (A)  except  for independent arts contractors, started business on
     8  September 1, 2018 or later and (B) has been operational for at least six
     9  months before an application is submitted;
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02651-01-3