Bill Text: NY A07516 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows for the division for small-business to advise on matters affecting micro-enterprises consisting of fewer than five employees; establishes the main street center grant program to create main street centers in each of the counties in New York state, with the exception of the five boroughs of New York city; and requires the secretary of state to receive all rule-making documents in electronic format and to create an online publication of the state register.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-24 - reported referred to ways and means [A07516 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07516-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 5493--A                                            A. 7516--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                      May 14, 2015
                                       ___________
        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed,  and  when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Commerce,
          Economic Development and Small Business -- recommitted to the  Commit-
          tee on Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business in accordance
          with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once  and  referred
          to  the Committee on Small Business -- recommitted 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 economic development law, the New York  state  urban
          development  corporation act, the executive law and the state adminis-
          trative procedure act, in relation to assisting  small  businesses  in
          this state
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of section 134  of  the
     2  economic  development  law, subdivision 7 as added by chapter 547 of the
     3  laws of 1976, subdivision 8 as amended and subdivision 11  as  added  by
     4  chapter 361 of the laws of 2009, subdivision 9 as amended by chapter 490
     5  of  the laws of 1993, subdivision 10 as added by chapter 543 of the laws
     6  of 2002 and subdivision 12 as amended by chapter 16 of the laws of 2014,
     7  are amended to read as follows:
     8    7. review pending legislation affecting  small-businesses  and  report
     9  its findings to the commissioner; [and]
    10    8. initiate and encourage small-business education programs in general
    11  and  to  coordinate with the functions of the office of general services
    12  an information and outreach program directed toward informing  small-bu-
    13  sinesses  in  the  state of procedures necessary for competing for state
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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