Bill Text: NY S08294 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the empire state development corporation and the governor's office of motion picture and television development to promulgate rules and regulations for municipalities charging film permit fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-08 - REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS [S08294 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08294-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8294

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
          opment and Small Business

        AN  ACT  to amend the economic development law, in relation to directing
          the empire state development corporation and the governor's office  of
          motion  picture  and  television  development  to promulgate rules and
          regulations for municipalities charging film permit fees

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

     1    Section  1.  The  economic  development law is amended by adding a new
     2  article 23 to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 23
     4                 FILM, TELEVISION AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS
     5  Section 450. Film permit fees.
     6    § 450. Film permit fees. The empire state development  corporation  in
     7  conjunction  with the governor's office of motion picture and television
     8  development shall promulgate rules and regulations regarding permit fees
     9  charged  by  municipalities  for   film,   television   and   commercial
    10  productions. Such rules and regulations shall include, but not be limit-
    11  ed  to, language that provides for a specific maximum amount that can be
    12  charged by a municipality for all such fees in each economic development
    13  region established pursuant to article eleven of this chapter.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14917-01-0
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