Bill Text: NY S02627 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-05 - PRINT NUMBER 2627A [S02627 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02627-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2627--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 27, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Econom-
          ic Development and Small Business -- recommitted to the  Committee  on
          Commerce,  Economic  Development and Small Business in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 Article 9 of the economic development law is REPEALED and a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;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07929-03-6