Bill Text: NY A02561 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2561 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to requiring companies receiving funding under the economic development law to disclose the number of its employees having been issued an H1-B visa.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to economic development [A02561 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02561-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2561
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. LALOR, MONTESANO, RAIA, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  McLAUGHLIN -- read once and referred to the  Committee
          on Economic Development
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the economic development law, in relation to company
          disclosure of employees having H1-B visas
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 47 of section 100 of the economic development
     2  law, as renumbered by chapter 427 of the laws  of  2008,  is  renumbered
     3  subdivision 48 and a new subdivision 47 is added to read as follows:
     4    47.  The  commissioner  shall  require  any  company receiving funding
     5  pursuant to this chapter to disclose the number of its  total  employees
     6  issued  an  H1-B  visa  by  United  States  citizenship  and immigration
     7  services in the department of homeland security.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07025-01-7