Bill Text: NY S00620 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that self employment activities, for the purposes of unemployment, shall include training and counseling on establishing a business; directs development centers and entrepreneurship support centers to track the outcomes in establishing businesses for program participants; directs the department of economic development to conduct a regional analysis of the effectiveness of self-employment sponsored businesses and business activity; extends from December 7, 2017 to December 7, 2019, the expiration of the self-employment assistance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-07 - referred to labor [S00620 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00620-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 620--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. VALESKY, CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Econom- ic Development and Small Business -- recommitted to the Committee 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 AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to requiring development centers and entrepreneurship support centers to track the success of program participants; to amend the labor law, in relation to self employment activities for the purposes of unemployment claims; and to amend chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, amending the labor law relating to the self-employment assistance program and other matters, in relation to extending the expiration of the provisions thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 213 of the economic development 2 law, as added by chapter 839 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. monitor the performance of each development center and each entre- 5 preneurship support center and require periodic and annual reports from 6 each development center and each entrepreneurship support center at such 7 time and in such a manner as prescribed by the commissioner, provided 8 that such periodic and annual reports shall provide information on 9 outcomes, whether successful or not, for all individual program partic- 10 ipants of each development center or entrepreneurship support center, 11 and track such outcomes on a statistical basis for a period of up to 12 five years so as to help ascertain, track and document the success rate 13 for such participants; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01973-02-6