Bill Text: NY S07061 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the empire state apprenticeship program; establishes the empire state apprenticeship tax credit program and grants the commissioner of the department of labor the power to administer such program; and creates the empire state apprenticeship tax credit (Part A); establishes the empire state apprenticeship grant program for small business and not-for-profit corporations (Part B).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-21 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S07061 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07061-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7061
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 21, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
        AN ACT in relation to enacting the empire state apprenticeship  program;
          to  amend  the labor law, in relation to establishing the empire state
          apprenticeship tax credit program and granting the commissioner of the
          department of labor the power to administer such program; and to amend
          the tax law, in relation to the empire state apprenticeship tax credit
          (Part A); to amend the labor law,  in  relation  to  establishing  the
          empire  state apprenticeship grant program for small business and not-
          for-profit corporations (Part B)
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall be known and may be cited as the "empire
     2  state apprenticeship program".
     3    § 2. This act enacts into law components of  legislation  relating  to
     4  the  empire  state  apprenticeship  program.  Each  component  is wholly
     5  contained within a Part identified as Parts A through B.  The  effective
     6  date  for  each  particular  provision contained within such Part is set
     7  forth in the last section of such Part. Any  provision  in  any  section
     8  contained within a Part, including the effective date of the Part, which
     9  makes reference to a section "of this act", when used in connection with
    10  that  particular  component,  shall  be  deemed to mean and refer to the
    11  corresponding section of the Part in which it is found. Section four  of
    12  this act sets forth the general effective date of this act.
    13                                   PART A
    14    Section  1.  The  labor law is amended by adding a new section 25-c to
    15  read as follows:
    16    § 25-c. Power to administer the empire state apprenticeship tax credit
    17  program.  (a) The commissioner is authorized to establish and administer
    18  the empire state apprenticeship tax credit program to provide tax incen-
    19  tives to qualified and certified    employers  for  employing  qualified
    20  apprentices  pursuant to an apprenticeship agreement registered with the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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