NY State Senate Bill 2015-S6959A

Senate Bill S6959A

Vetoed By Governor

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to creating a comprehensive website of small business and minority and women-owned business enterprise assistance

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A9591 - Vetoed by Governor

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Vetoed By Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Nov 28, 2016	tabled vetoed memo.249
Nov 16, 2016	delivered to governor
Jun 16, 2016	returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.1865 substituted for s6959a
Jun 16, 2016	substituted by a9591a ordered to third reading cal.1865
Jun 07, 2016	reported and committed to rules
Apr 29, 2016	print number 6959a
Apr 29, 2016	amend and recommit to commerce, economic development and small business
Mar 10, 2016	referred to commerce, economic development and small business

Votes

- Jun 16, 2016 - Floor Vote
  A9591
  
  62
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 16, 2016
      
      aye (62)
      
      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
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Persaud
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      Venditto
      
      Young
      
      excused (1)
      
      Diaz
  Jun 16, 2016 - Rules Committee Vote
  S6959A
  
  24
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 16, 2016
      
      aye (24)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Espaillat
      
      Farley
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      Parker
      
      Perkins
      
      Robach
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Hannon
  Jun 7, 2016 - Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business Committee Vote
  S6959A
  
  8
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  1
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business Committee Vote: Jun 7, 2016
      
      aye (8)
      
      Boyle
      
      Felder
      
      Funke
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Kennedy
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Valesky
      
      aye wr (2)
      
      Gallivan
      
      Griffo
      
      absent (1)
      
      Persaud

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

co-Sponsors

2015-S6959 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9591
Law Section:: Economic Development Law
Laws Affected:: Add §103-a, Ec Dev L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S3270
2019-2020: S4429

2015-S6959 - Summary

Relates to creating a comprehensive website of small business and minority and women-owned business enterprise assistance; requires the department of economic development to review its existing websites, directories, and registries offering assistance to small businesses and minority and women-owned business enterprises and consolidate them into a comprehensive website.

2015-S6959 - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S6959

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the economic development law, in
relation to creating a comprehensive website of small business and
minority and women-owned business enterprise assistance

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

Creates a comprehensive website of small-business and minority and
women-owned business enterprise.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Section 1 amends the economic development law by adding section 103-a
which directs the office of economic development to review all
existing minority and women-owned small business enterprise websites,
registries and/or directories that are managed by the department. All
such websites registries and/or directories, shall be consolidated
making this comprehensive website a one-stop shop source of
information. The consolidated website shall contain a centralized
state database of samples of electronic copies of applications,
proposals, forms and any other necessary documents. The directory
and/or database shall be in an electronic format that is searchable
and available to the public and shall be updated on a monthly basis.
This section directs the commissioner to adopt rules and regulations
necessary for implementation.

Section 2 this act shall take effect immediately.

 JUSTIFICATION :

One consistent theme throughout the Governor's Small Business
Initiative has been the need to improve small businesses' access to
information about existing programs. This theme applies with equal
force in the area of access to capital, where the committee felt that
small businesses were not aware of many programs that already exist in
the State that provide small businesses with access to capital.  This
bill would provide a directory for small businesses and minority and
women owned businesses to turn to for information about relevant
programs.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2013-14: S.898/A.4169- Referred to Commerce, Economic Development and
Small Business
2011-12: S.6498/A.8036- Passed Assembly

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS :

None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately.

2015-S6959 - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6959

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 10, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 creating a
  comprehensive website of small business and minority  and  women-owned
  business enterprise 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 103-a to read as follows:
  S  103-A.  COMPREHENSIVE  WEBSITE  OF  SMALL BUSINESS AND MINORITY AND
WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE  ASSISTANCE.  1.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL
REVIEW  ALL  EXISTING MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
WEBSITES, REGISTRIES AND/OR DIRECTORIES THAT ARE MANAGED BY THE  DEPART-
MENT  CURRENTLY  OFFERING INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE TO SMALL BUSINESSES
AND MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND SHALL  CONSOLIDATE
SUCH   WEBSITES,  REGISTRIES  AND  DIRECTORIES  INTO  ONE  COMPREHENSIVE
WEBSITE. SUCH COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE SHALL BE A ONE-STOP SOURCE OF INFOR-
MATION AND ASSISTANCE TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND MINORITY  AND  WOMEN-OWNED
BUSINESS  ENTERPRISES.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  MAINTAIN  THE FORMAT AND
CONTENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE AND SHALL UPDATE SUCH COMPREHENSIVE
WEBSITE AT LEAST MONTHLY.
  2. THE COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
  (A) INFORMATION ON ALL STATE, FEDERAL, PRIVATE AND NON-PROFIT  TECHNI-
CAL  AND  FINANCIAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSI-
NESS ENTERPRISES AND  SMALL  BUSINESSES.    SUCH  INFORMATION  SHALL  BE
SEARCHABLE  BY:  (I)  PROGRAM  NAME; (II) TYPE OF FINANCIAL OR TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE; AND (III) WHETHER ASSISTANCE IS OFFERED TO SMALL  BUSINESSES
OR  MINORITY  AND  WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES. EACH PROGRAM LISTED
SHALL CONTAIN IDENTIFYING INFORMATION INCLUDING A  PROGRAM  DESCRIPTION,
THE  TYPE  OF  ASSISTANCE  OFFERED, INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLICATION TO SUCH
PROGRAM, THE DEADLINE FOR SUCH APPLICATION, THE NAME, ADDRESS AND  PHONE
NUMBER  OF  A  CONTACT PERSON AT SUCH STATE OR FEDERAL AGENCY OR PRIVATE
FOUNDATION OFFERING SUCH  ASSISTANCE,  AND  IN  THE  CASE  OF  FINANCIAL

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

                                                           LBD14059-03-6

S. 6959                             2

ASSISTANCE  THE  AMOUNT  OF  SUCH ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE AND THE SOURCE OF
FUNDS;
  (B)  INFORMATION ON ALL STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES OFFERING ASSISTANCE
TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND MINORITY AND  WOMEN-OWNED  BUSINESS  ENTERPRISES
INCLUDING THE NAME, ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER OF A CONTACT PERSON AT SUCH
AGENCY;
  (C)  A SEARCHABLE, CENTRALIZED STATE DATABASE OF SAMPLES OF ELECTRONIC
COPIES OF APPLICATIONS, PROPOSALS AND FORMS  SUBMITTED  BY  SMALL  BUSI-
NESSES AND MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES AND ACCEPTED AND APPROVED
BY  THE  DEPARTMENT; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE DEPARTMENT SHALL REDACT
ANY INFORMATION IN SUCH APPLICATIONS, PROPOSALS AND FORMS AND ANY  OTHER
NECESSARY  DOCUMENTS  AS  REQUIRED  BY  LAW  AND MAY, IN ITS DISCRETION,
REDACT ANY OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED IN SUCH APPLICATIONS,  PROPOSALS,
AND  FORMS  AND  ANY  OTHER  NECESSARY  DOCUMENTS IN ORDER TO PREVENT AN
UNWARRANTED INVASION OF PRIVACY;
  (D) A METHOD FOR THE  ELECTRONIC  SUBMISSION  (I)  OF  INFORMATION  BY
PROGRAMS  OFFERING  ASSISTANCE  TO  SMALL  BUSINESSES  AND  MINORITY AND
WOMEN-OWNED  BUSINESS  ENTERPRISES  AND  (II)   OF   ANY   APPLICATIONS,
PROPOSALS, FORMS OR OTHER NECESSARY DOCUMENTS REQUIRED BY THE DEPARTMENT
BY  SMALL  BUSINESSES AND MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES;
AND
  (E) A LINK TO CENSUS DATA FROM THE MOST RECENT UNITED STATES CENSUS.
  3. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ADOPT RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  TO  IMPLEMENT
THIS SECTION.
  4. THE COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE CREATED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUBLICLY
ACCESSIBLE WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

co-Sponsors

2015-S6959A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9591
Law Section:: Economic Development Law
Laws Affected:: Add §103-a, Ec Dev L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S3270
2019-2020: S4429

2015-S6959A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2015-S6959A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S6959A

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the economic development law, in relation to creating
a comprehensive website of small business and minority and women-owned
business enterprise assistance

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

Creates a comprehensive website of small-business and minority and
women-owned business enterprise.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Section 1 amends the economic development law by adding section 103-a
which directs the office of economic development to review all
existing minority and women-owned small business enterprise websites,
registries and/or directories that are managed by the department. All
such websites registries and/or directories, shall be consolidated
making this comprehensive website a one-stop shop source of
information. The consolidated website shall contain a centralized
state database of samples of electronic copies of applications,
proposals, forms and any other necessary documents. The directory
and/or database shall be in an electronic format that is searchable
and available to the public and shall be updated on a monthly basis.

This section directs the commissioner to adopt rules and regulations
necessary for implementation.

Section 2 this act shall take effect immediately.

 JUSTIFICATION :

One consistent theme throughout the Governor's Small Business
Initiative has been the need to improve small businesses' access to
information about existing programs. This theme applies with equal
force in the area of access to capital, where the committee felt that
small businesses were not aware of many programs that already exist in
the State that provide small businesses with access to capital.  This
bill would provide a directory for small businesses and minority and
women owned businesses to turn to for information about relevant
programs.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2013-14: S.898/A.4169- Referred to Commerce, Economic Development and
Small Business
2011-12: S.6498/A.8036- Passed Assembly

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS :

None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately.

2015-S6959A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                 6959--A

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 10, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens. PARKER, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Econom-
  ic Development  and  Small  Business  --  committee  discharged,  bill
  amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
  tee

AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to creating  a
  comprehensive  website  of small business and minority and women-owned
  business enterprise 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 103-a to read as follows:
  S 103-A. COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE OF  SMALL  BUSINESS  AND  MINORITY  AND
WOMEN-OWNED  BUSINESS  ENTERPRISE  ASSISTANCE.  1.  THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
REVIEW ALL EXISTING MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL  BUSINESS  ENTERPRISE
WEBSITES,  REGISTRIES AND/OR DIRECTORIES THAT ARE MANAGED BY THE DEPART-
MENT CURRENTLY OFFERING INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE TO  SMALL  BUSINESSES
AND  MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND SHALL CONSOLIDATE
SUCH  WEBSITES,  REGISTRIES  AND  DIRECTORIES  INTO  ONE   COMPREHENSIVE
WEBSITE. SUCH COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE SHALL BE A ONE-STOP SOURCE OF INFOR-
MATION  AND  ASSISTANCE TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED
BUSINESS ENTERPRISES. THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  MAINTAIN  THE  FORMAT  AND
CONTENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE AND SHALL UPDATE SUCH COMPREHENSIVE
WEBSITE AS OFTEN AS FEASIBLE.
  2. THE COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
  (A)  INFORMATION ON ALL STATE, FEDERAL, PRIVATE AND NON-PROFIT TECHNI-
CAL AND FINANCIAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO MINORITY AND  WOMEN-OWNED  BUSI-
NESS  ENTERPRISES  AND  SMALL  BUSINESSES.    SUCH  INFORMATION SHALL BE
SEARCHABLE BY: (I) PROGRAM NAME; (II) TYPE  OF  FINANCIAL  OR  TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE;  AND (III) WHETHER ASSISTANCE IS OFFERED TO SMALL BUSINESSES
OR MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.  EACH  PROGRAM  LISTED
SHALL  CONTAIN  IDENTIFYING INFORMATION INCLUDING A PROGRAM DESCRIPTION,
THE TYPE OF ASSISTANCE OFFERED, INSTRUCTIONS  FOR  APPLICATION  TO  SUCH
PROGRAM,  THE DEADLINE FOR SUCH APPLICATION, THE NAME, ADDRESS AND PHONE

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

                                                           LBD14059-04-6

S. 6959--A                          2

NUMBER OF A CONTACT PERSON AT SUCH STATE OR FEDERAL  AGENCY  OR  PRIVATE
FOUNDATION  OFFERING  SUCH  ASSISTANCE,  AND  IN  THE  CASE OF FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE THE AMOUNT OF SUCH ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE  AND  THE  SOURCE  OF
FUNDS;
  (B)  INFORMATION ON ALL STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES OFFERING ASSISTANCE
TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND MINORITY AND  WOMEN-OWNED  BUSINESS  ENTERPRISES
INCLUDING THE NAME, ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER OF A CONTACT PERSON AT SUCH
AGENCY;
  (C)  A SEARCHABLE, CENTRALIZED STATE DATABASE OF SAMPLES OF ELECTRONIC
COPIES OF APPLICATIONS, PROPOSALS AND FORMS  SUBMITTED  BY  SMALL  BUSI-
NESSES AND MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES AND ACCEPTED AND APPROVED
BY  THE  DEPARTMENT; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE DEPARTMENT SHALL REDACT
ANY INFORMATION IN SUCH APPLICATIONS, PROPOSALS AND FORMS AND ANY  OTHER
NECESSARY  DOCUMENTS  AS  REQUIRED  BY  LAW  AND MAY, IN ITS DISCRETION,
REDACT ANY OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED IN SUCH APPLICATIONS,  PROPOSALS,
AND  FORMS  AND  ANY  OTHER  NECESSARY  DOCUMENTS IN ORDER TO PREVENT AN
UNWARRANTED INVASION OF PRIVACY;
  (D) A METHOD FOR THE  ELECTRONIC  SUBMISSION  (I)  OF  INFORMATION  BY
PROGRAMS  OFFERING  ASSISTANCE  TO  SMALL  BUSINESSES  AND  MINORITY AND
WOMEN-OWNED  BUSINESS  ENTERPRISES  AND  (II)   OF   ANY   APPLICATIONS,
PROPOSALS, FORMS OR OTHER NECESSARY DOCUMENTS REQUIRED BY THE DEPARTMENT
BY  SMALL  BUSINESSES AND MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES;
AND
  (E) A LINK TO CENSUS DATA FROM THE MOST RECENT UNITED STATES CENSUS.
  3. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ADOPT RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  TO  IMPLEMENT
THIS SECTION.
  4. THE COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE CREATED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUBLICLY
ACCESSIBLE WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Sponsored By

Kevin S. Parker

Archive: Last Bill Status Via A9591 - Vetoed by Governor

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

Timothy M. Kennedy

2015-S6959 - Details

2015-S6959 - Summary

2015-S6959 - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6959 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

Timothy M. Kennedy

2015-S6959A (ACTIVE) - Details

2015-S6959A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2015-S6959A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6959A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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