NY State Senate Bill 2015-S6588

Senate Bill S6588

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires state economic development agencies to provide preferences to small businesses and entrepreneurs in the programs that they administer

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 06, 2016	referred to ways and means delivered to assembly passed senate
May 23, 2016	advanced to third reading
May 18, 2016	2nd report cal.
May 17, 2016	1st report cal.887
Jan 28, 2016	referred to commerce, economic development and small business

Votes

- Jun 6, 2016 - Floor Vote
  S6588
  
  61
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  2
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 6, 2016
      
      aye (61)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Amedore
      
      Avella
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Croci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Espaillat
      
      Farley
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hannon
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Latimer
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Martins
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      Nozzolio
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Panepinto
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Persaud
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      Venditto
      
      Young
      
      excused (2)
      
      Diaz
      
      Parker
  May 17, 2016 - Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business Committee Vote
  S6588
  
  11
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business Committee Vote: May 17, 2016
      
      aye (11)
      
      Boyle
      
      Felder
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Griffo
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Kennedy
      
      Persaud
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Valesky

2015-S6588 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5480
Current Committee:: Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:: Economic Development Law
Laws Affected:: Add §101-a, Ec Dev L; amd §1823, Pub Auth L; add §4-a, UDC Act
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S3802
2011-2012: S4410
2013-2014: S1530, A4738
2017-2018: S2138, A3486
2019-2020: S1238
2021-2022: S3038
2023-2024: S5407

2015-S6588 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of economic development, job development authority, and urban development corporation to provide preferences to small businesses and entrepreneurs in the administration of their economic development assistance programs; requires annual reports thereon.

2015-S6588 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S6588

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the economic development law, the public authorities
law and the New York state urban development corporation act, in
relation to providing a preference to small businesses and
entrepreneurs in the award of state economic development assistance

 PURPOSE :

To require that State economic development agencies give preference to
the small businesses and entrepreneurs in the award of State economic
development assistance.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

This bill amends the economic development law, the public authorities
law with respect to the Job Development Authority and the New York
State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research and the
Urban Development Corporation Act.

This bill would direct the Department of Economic Development, the Job
Development Authority, the New York State Office of Science,
Technology and Academic Research and the Urban Development Corporation
to give preference to small businesses and entrepreneurs seeking State

economic development funds.

This bill would require that within each statutory economic
development program, the State agency or authority actively market the
program to small businesses and entrepreneurs, assist small businesses
and entrepreneurs in accessing the program, and in the review of
applications for program funds, give priority to those applications
from small businesses and entrepreneurs. The bill would also require
each State economic development agency to report annually on
activities undertaken to provide small businesses and entrepreneurs
with a preference in the award of funds, and to list those businesses
and entrepreneurs.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Small businesses and entrepreneurs create eight out of every ten new
jobs in New York State. Although many State economic development
programs have been created specifically to assist small businesses and
entrepreneurs in creating or retaining jobs, in reality larger
businesses often have a competitive advantage in accessing State
assistance, with greater levels of resources and in-house expertise.
Often times state economic development agencies also display a clear
preference for larger, higher-profile capital projects at the expense
of small business formation and growth.

This bill would vest each State economic development agency and each
State economic development program with the mission of ensuring that
small businesses and entrepreneurs are provided with the information
and assistance they require accessing every state economic development
program. The bill would also direct each state economic development
agency to evaluate applications for financial assistance with the goal
of ensuring that small businesses and entrepreneurs receive priority
consideration in the award of limited state funds.

By establishing a clear preference in the award of State economic
development funds to small businesses and entrepreneurs, the state may
more effectively target its limited economic development resources to
those businesses in greatest need of assistance and with greatest job
creation potential.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2004: Senate Commerce Cmte./Passed Assembly
2005-06: Senate Commerce Cmte./Passed Assembly
2007-08: Passed Senate/Passed Assembly
2009-10:  S.3802 Commerce, Economic Development & Small Business Cmte.
2011-12:  S.4410 Passed Senate 2011; Committed to Rules in 2012 /
Assembly Ways and Means 2013: Reported to rules 2014: Passed Senate
2015: S2089 Passed Senate

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediately.

2015-S6588 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6588

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 28, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- 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, the public authorities law
  and  the New York state urban development corporation act, in relation
  to providing a preference to small businesses and entrepreneurs in the
  award of state economic development assistance

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The  economic  development law is amended by adding a new
section 101-a to read as follows:
  S 101-A. PREFERENCES TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND  ENTREPRENEURS.  IN  EACH
PROGRAM  ADMINISTERED  BY  OR ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT PURSUANT TO AN
APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS, AND CONSISTENT WITH ANY STATUTE  GOVERNING  SUCH
PROGRAM,  PREFERENCE  SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE AWARD OF SUCH FUNDS TO SMALL
BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS. SUCH PREFERENCE SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT  BE
LIMITED  TO, ACTIVE MARKETING OF THE PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY TO SMALL BUSI-
NESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS, PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUAL SMALL BUSI-
NESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS IN ACCESSING AVAILABLE FUNDS UNDER THE PROGRAM,
AND ESTABLISHING AND WORKING TO MEET THE GOAL OF AWARDING TWENTY PERCENT
OF AVAILABLE FUNDS UNDER THE PROGRAM TO SMALL BUSINESSES  AND  ENTREPRE-
NEURS.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "ENTREPRENEUR" SHALL MEAN
A PERSON WHO ORGANIZES, OPERATES, AND ASSUMES THE  RISK  OF  A  START-UP
BUSINESS  VENTURE.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  INCLUDE IN THE ANNUAL REPORT
REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THIRTY-SEVEN-A OF SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED
OF  THIS  ARTICLE  A  DESCRIPTION  OF ACTIVITIES, A LISTING OF PROPOSALS
RECEIVING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO  THIS  SECTION  AND  IDENTIFY
WHETHER THE TWENTY PERCENT GOAL WAS MET FOR EACH PROGRAM.
  S 2. Section 1823 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
  8.  IN EACH PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE AUTHORITY, AND
CONSISTENT WITH ANY STATUTE GOVERNING SUCH PROGRAM, PREFERENCE SHALL  BE
GIVEN  TO THE AWARD OF SUCH FUNDS TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS.
SUCH PREFERENCE SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,  ACTIVE  MARKETING

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

                                                           LBD05333-01-5

S. 6588                             2

OF  THE  PROGRAM  SPECIFICALLY  TO  SMALL  BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS,
PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUAL SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS IN
ACCESSING AVAILABLE FUNDS UNDER THE PROGRAM, AND ESTABLISHING AND  WORK-
ING TO MEET THE GOAL OF AWARDING TWENTY PERCENT OF AVAILABLE FUNDS UNDER
THE PROGRAM TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS
SUBDIVISION,  THE  TERM  "SMALL BUSINESS" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS
PROVIDED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE OF THE  ECONOMIC  DEVELOPMENT
LAW  AND  THE  TERM  "ENTREPRENEUR"  SHALL  MEAN A PERSON OR PERSONS WHO
ORGANIZES, OPERATES,  AND  ASSUMES  THE  RISK  OF  A  START-UP  BUSINESS
VENTURE.  THE  AUTHORITY  SHALL  INCLUDE  IN  THE  ANNUAL PROGRAM REPORT
REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  TWENTY-NINE-A  OF  THIS
TITLE  A DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES, A LISTING OF PROPOSALS PROVIDED WITH
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION AND IDENTIFY  WHETHER  THE
TWENTY PERCENT GOAL WAS MET FOR EACH PROGRAM.
  S 3. Section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968 constituting the New
York  state urban development corporation act is amended by adding a new
section 4-a to read as follows:
  S 4-A.  PREFERENCES TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS.    IN  EACH
PROGRAM  ADMINISTERED  BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE CORPORATION PURSUANT TO AN
APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS, AND CONSISTENT WITH ANY STATUTE  GOVERNING  SUCH
PROGRAM,  PREFERENCE  SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE AWARD OF SUCH FUNDS TO SMALL
BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS.  SUCH PREFERENCE SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE
LIMITED TO, ACTIVE MARKETING OF THE PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY TO SMALL  BUSI-
NESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS, PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUAL SMALL BUSI-
NESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS IN ACCESSING AVAILABLE FUNDS UNDER THE PROGRAM,
AND ESTABLISHING AND WORKING TO MEET THE GOAL OF AWARDING TWENTY PERCENT
OF  AVAILABLE  FUNDS UNDER THE PROGRAM TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRE-
NEURS.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM  "SMALL  BUSINESS"  SHALL
HAVE  THE SAME MEANING AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 131 OF THE ECONOMIC DEVEL-
OPMENT LAW AND THE TERM "ENTREPRENEUR" SHALL MEAN A  PERSON  OR  PERSONS
WHO  ORGANIZES,  OPERATES,  AND  ASSUMES THE RISK OF A START-UP BUSINESS
VENTURE. THE CORPORATION SHALL INCLUDE  IN  THE  ANNUAL  PROGRAM  REPORT
REQUIRED  PURSUANT TO SECTION THIRTY OF THIS ACT A DESCRIPTION OF ACTIV-
ITIES, A LISTING OF PROPOSALS PROVIDED WITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE  PURSU-
ANT TO THIS SECTION AND IDENTIFY WHETHER THE TWENTY PERCENT GOAL WAS MET
FOR EACH PROGRAM.
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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