Bill Text: NY S06271 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 6271 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Directs the council on the arts to establish criteria and guidelines for the establishment of state designated arts and cultural districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-14 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [S06271 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06271-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6271--A
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 6, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and Recreation -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  arts  and cultural affairs law and the economic
          development law,  in  relation  to  creating  the  arts  and  cultural
          district
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The arts and cultural affairs law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new section 3.19 to read as follows:
     3    §  3.19.  Arts  and  cultural  district.  1. The council shall develop
     4  criteria and guidelines for state designated arts and cultural districts
     5  and shall develop an application process for  receiving  such  a  desig-
     6  nation.  A  district  shall  be  defined as a geographic area of a city,
     7  town, or village with a concentration of  arts  or  cultural  facilities
     8  located  within  its  boundaries.  Criteria  developed by the council to
     9  designate a district shall include determinations  that  such  district:
    10  (a)  attracts  artists  or  cultural  enterprises  to the community, (b)
    11  encourages business and job development due to the  pre-existing  insti-
    12  tutions, (c) attracts a sufficient amount of tourism, (d) enhances local
    13  property  values  and fosters local cultural development, or (e) has the
    14  potential to meet any of the categorical  determinations  if  sufficient
    15  state  support  and assistance is provided to the proposed district. The
    16  council shall also develop guidelines that provide assistance to a city,
    17  town, or village in  developing  an  application  for  district  certif-
    18  ication.
    19    2.  For  any  state designated arts and cultural district, the council
    20  and the urban development  corporation  shall  provide  state  supported
    21  assistance  to the district in its activities, including but not limited
    22  to technical assistance in applying for federal and  non-profit  grants,
    23  marketing  expertise,  identification  of other state resources that may
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13316-04-6