Bill Text: NY S01656 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits industrial development agencies from incentivizing movements within the state where any plant, facility, or personnel of the project occupant are abandoned or removed.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-18 - referred to ways and means [S01656 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S01656-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1656--A Cal. No. 940 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, BIAGGI, KRUEGER, MAYER, REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first report, amended on first report, ordered to a second report and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to prohibiting industrial development agencies from incentivizing movements within the state 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 862 of the general municipal law, 2 as amended by section 1 of part J of chapter 59 of the laws of 2013, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (1) No funds of the agency shall be used in respect of any project if 5 the completion thereof would result in the removal of [an industrial or6manufacturing] any plant, facility or personnel of the project occupant 7 from one area of the state to another area of the state [or], in the 8 abandonment of one or more plants or facilities of the project occupant 9 located within the state or the unemployment or relocation of any 10 personnel who are employed by the project occupant, provided, however, 11 that neither restriction shall apply if the agency shall determine on 12 the basis of the application before it that the project is reasonably 13 necessary to discourage the project occupant from removing such other 14 plant or facility to a location outside the state or is reasonably 15 necessary to preserve the competitive position of the project occupant 16 in its respective industry due to physical, zoning, or logistical 17 constraints at such project occupant's existing site within the state. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05819-02-1
