Bill Text: NY A04399 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates the small business innovation research/small business technology transfer technical assistance program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-04 - reported referred to ways and means [A04399 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04399-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4399--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, MAGNARELLI, GUNTHER, WEPRIN, JAFFEE,
          LUPARDO,  SIMANOWITZ, ROBINSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BREN-
          NAN, CAHILL, DenDEKKER, HOOPER, MORELLE, PERRY, SKARTADOS,  THIELE  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Small Business -- recommit-
          ted  to  the  Committee  on Small Business in accordance with Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in
          relation  to  creating  the  small  business innovation research/small
          business technology transfer technical assistance program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting
     2  the New York state urban development  corporation  act,  is  amended  by
     3  adding a new section 52 to read as follows:
     4    §  52.  Small business innovation research (SBIR)/small business tech-
     5  nology transfer (STTR) technical assistance program. 1. The small  busi-
     6  ness  innovation  research/small  business technology transfer technical
     7  assistance program, hereafter referred to as "the  program",  is  hereby
     8  created in the corporation for the purposes of providing funds to eligi-
     9  ble  entities to provide technical assistance to small businesses of one
    10  hundred employees or less and located in New  York  state  in  competing
    11  successfully  for  grants  made available through phase I of the federal
    12  small business innovation research program as enacted  pursuant  to  the
    13  small  business  innovation development act of 1982, and the small busi-
    14  ness technology transfer act of 1982, so as to increase  the  number  of
    15  phase I SBIR and STTR award winners within the state.
    16    2.  Technical  assistance services under this section may include, but
    17  are not limited to:
    18    (a) outreach to small businesses to  promote  awareness  of  SBIR/STTR
    19  program solicitations;
    20    (b)  counseling  to  determine  the  ability  of  a business to pursue
    21  SBIR/STTR phase I funding, the technology match with the federal  agency
    22  solicitation  to be pursued, the qualifications of personnel involved in
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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