NY State Senate Bill 2009-S3477

Senate Bill S3477

Vetoed By Governor

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Creates the niche market assistance projects for small businesses to identify and develop niche markets for their products in competitive environments

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A4550 - Vetoed by Governor

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Vetoed By Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Sep 18, 2010	tabled vetoed memo.6801
Sep 07, 2010	delivered to governor
Jun 22, 2010	returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.1074 substituted for s3477
Jun 22, 2010	substituted by a4550 ordered to third reading cal.1074 committee discharged and committed to rules
May 03, 2010	notice of committee consideration - requested
Apr 07, 2010	reported and committed to finance
Jan 06, 2010	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
Mar 25, 2009	reported and committed to finance
Mar 19, 2009	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

Votes

- Jun 22, 2010 - Floor Vote
  A4550
  
  61
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 22, 2010
      
      aye (61)
      
      Adams
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Alesi
      
      Aubertine
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Duane
      
      Espada
      
      Farley
      
      Flanagan
      
      Foley
      
      Fuschillo
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hannon
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Huntley
      
      Johnson
      
      Johnson
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      Kruger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Leibell
      
      Libous
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Maziarz
      
      McDonald
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      Onorato
      
      Oppenheimer
      
      Padavan
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Robach
      
      Saland
      
      Sampson
      
      Savino
      
      Schneiderman
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Smith
      
      Squadron
      
      Stachowski
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Thompson
      
      Valesky
      
      Volker
      
      Winner
      
      Young
      
      excused (1)
      
      Morahan
  Jun 22, 2010 - Rules Committee Vote
  S3477
  
  18
  
  Aye
  
  1
  
  Nay
  
  4
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 22, 2010
      
      aye (18)
      
      Dilan
      
      Duane
      
      Espada
      
      Farley
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Johnson
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Padavan
      
      Parker
      
      Serrano
      
      Skelos
      
      Smith
      
      Stachowski
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      Volker
      
      nay (1)
      
      Larkin
      
      aye wr (4)
      
      Hannon
      
      LaValle
      
      Saland
      
      Seward
  Apr 7, 2010 - Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee Vote
  S3477
  
  3
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee Vote: Apr 7, 2010
      
      aye (3)
      
      Dilan
      
      Perkins
      
      Squadron
      
      aye wr (2)
      
      Larkin
      
      Ranzenhofer

2009-S3477 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4550
Law Section:: New York State Urban Development Corporation Act
Laws Affected:: Add §16-p, UDC Act
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S1768, A5224, A7327
2013-2014: S1248, A6749

2009-S3477 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the niche market assistance projects for small businesses to identify and develop niche markets for their products in competitive environments.

2009-S3477 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S3477

 TITLE OF BILL :
An act to amend the New York state urban development corporation act,
in relation to creating niche market assistance projects to promote
economic development


 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :
To assist small manufacturers to seek niche markets.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

A "niche market" is a targeted market composed of individuals and
businesses that have similar interests and needs, which can be readily
identified and that can be easily targeted and reached, or group of
potential customers who share common characteristics making them
especially receptive to the company's product, service or opportunity.

The bill establishes a competitive program in UDC providing grants of
up to $200,000 to a not-for-profit corporation or Manufacturing
Extension partnership program with a demonstrated capacity to conduct
market analysis and seek new markets for niche products for
manufacturers, to enable the grant recipients to work with and assist
small manufacturers identify and develop niche markets.

Entities eligible to apply for funding for a niche market assistance
project include not-for-profit corporations, local development
corporations, trade associations, educational institutions, technology
development corporations which operate manufacturing extension
programs, and other not-for-profit organizations which promote
economic development.

Projects eligible to be a niche market assistance include research,
market analysis, marketing assistance, and identifying sources of
financial assistance to enter into new markets.

 JUSTIFICATION :
Small manufacturing enterprises are responsible for an estimated
28%-40% of employment in the manufacturing sector. They tend to be
more effective at job creation and job replacement, more innovative in
the development of products and process improvements, more flexible
and thus more competitive, in terms of the ability to produce small
quantities.  All of these factors help to explain the shift to a
smaller average plant size and the national trend toward more of the
total production of goods coming from smaller manufacturers.

Small manufacturing enterprises, often owned by, minorities and
immigrants, have been growing. Leading this expansion in New York are
specialty and ethnic food manufacturers, which have grown by more than
8 percent over the past year. other evidence suggests that there is
similar growth in construction; specialty apparel for niche markets
and other design-based manufacturing industries such as luxury
consumer goods like jewelry; medical instruments; suppliers to service
industries; end companies serving local markets, such as makers of
food products or suppliers of construction materials.

Often, small manufacturers can not only survive, but grow, if they can
identify and develop niche markets - targeted markets composed of
individuals and businesses that have similar interests and needs,
which can be readily identified, and that can be easily targeted and
reached, or group of potential customers who share common
characteristics making them especially receptive to the company's
product, services, or opportunity.


Small firms are traditionally hard to reach by centralized state
programs. Therefore this program reaches out to local and regional
partners who are familiar with and have established relationships with
businesses in their areas.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :
A10481-A (2004) Died in Third Reading Rules Cal. 1023; A6279, Died in
Corporations, Authorities and commissions Committee; A2877-A Died in
Corporations, Authorities and Commissions committee.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :
Undetermined.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediate.

2009-S3477 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3477

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 19, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. PERKINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
  and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in
  relation  to  creating  niche  market  assistance  projects to promote
  economic development

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Statement of legislative intent. Small manufacturing enter-
prises are responsible for an estimated twenty-eight to forty percent of
employment  in  the manufacturing sector. They tend to be more effective
at job creation and job replacement, more innovative in the  development
of  products  and  process  improvements,  more  flexible, and thus more
competitive, in terms of the ability to produce small quantities. All of
these factors help to explain the shift to  smaller  and  average  sized
plants  and  the  national  trend toward more of the total production of
goods coming from small manufacturers.
  Small manufacturing enterprises, often owned  by  minorities  and  new
immigrants,  have  been  growing. Leading this expansion in New York are
specialty and ethnic food manufacturers, which have grown by  more  than
eight  percent over the past year. Other evidence suggests that there is
similar growth in construction; specialty apparel for niche markets  and
other  design-based  manufacturing  industries  such  as luxury consumer
goods like jewelry; medical instruments;  suppliers  to  service  indus-
tries;  and  companies  serving  local  markets,  such as makers of food
products or suppliers of construction materials.
  Often, small manufacturers can not only survive, but grow, if they can
identify and develop niche markets - targeted markets composed of  indi-
viduals  and businesses that have similar interests and needs, which can
be readily identified, and that can be easily targeted and reached, or a
group of potential customers who  share  common  characteristics  making

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08036-01-9

S. 3477                             2

them especially receptive to the company's product, service, or opportu-
nity.
  S  2.  Section  1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the
New York state urban development corporation act, is amended by adding a
new section 16-t to read as follows:
  S 16-T. NICHE MARKET ASSISTANCE PROJECTS. 1. THE CORPORATION IS HEREBY
AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO  NICHE  MARKET  ASSISTANCE  PROJECTS
DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED MANUFACTURING OR
FOOD  PROCESSING  BUSINESSES WITH FEWER THAN TWO HUNDRED FIFTY EMPLOYEES
TO IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP NICHE MARKETS FOR THEIR PRODUCTS.
  2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS  SECTION,  "NICHE  MARKET"  SHALL  MEAN  A
TARGETED MARKET COMPOSED OF INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES THAT HAVE SIMILAR
INTERESTS  AND  NEEDS,  WHICH  CAN BE READILY IDENTIFIED AND REACHED, OR
GROUP OF POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS WHO  SHARE  COMMON  CHARACTERISTICS  MAKING
THEM  ESPECIALLY RECEPTIVE TO THE COMPANY'S PRODUCT, SERVICE OR OPPORTU-
NITY.
  3. THE CORPORATION  SHALL  ACTIVELY  SEEK  TO  IDENTIFY  ENTITIES  AND
DISSEMINATE  INFORMATION  TO  SUCH  ENTITIES  WHICH  MAY  BE ELIGIBLE TO
RECEIVE ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO  THIS  SECTION  AND  SHALL  MAKE  AWARDS,
SUBJECT  TO  AVAILABLE  APPROPRIATIONS,  FOR  NICHE MARKETING ASSISTANCE
PROJECTS ON A COMPETITIVE BASIS TO SUCH ENTITIES.
  (A) ENTITIES ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR FUNDING FOR A NICHE MARKET  ASSIST-
ANCE  PROJECT  SHALL INCLUDE NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS, LOCAL DEVELOP-
MENT CORPORATIONS, TRADE ASSOCIATIONS, EDUCATIONAL  INSTITUTIONS,  TECH-
NOLOGY  DEVELOPMENT  CORPORATIONS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 3102-D
OF THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES  LAW  WHICH  OPERATE  MANUFACTURING  EXTENSION
PROGRAMS,  AND OTHER NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WHICH PROMOTE ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT.
  (B) APPLICANTS SHALL BE REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE:
  (I) THEIR ABILITY TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES PROPOSED;
  (II) THE POTENTIAL FOR MANUFACTURING OR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES  IN
THEIR AREA OF SERVICE TO DEVELOP NICHE MARKETS;
  (III)  THE  POSSIBILITY  THAT  THE  SERVICES TO BE FUNDED WOULD BECOME
SELF-SUSTAINING;
  (IV) THE PARTICIPATION OF  LOCAL  AND  REGIONAL  ECONOMIC  DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONS; AND
  (V) TO PROVIDE A PROGRAM BUDGET, INCLUDING MATCHING FUNDS, IN-KIND AND
OTHERWISE, TO BE PROVIDED BY THE APPLICANT.
  (C)  A  PROJECT  ELIGIBLE  TO BE A NICHE MARKET ASSISTANCE PROJECT MAY
INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,  RESEARCH,  MARKET  ANALYSIS,  MARKETING
ASSISTANCE,  AND  IDENTIFYING  SOURCES  OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ENTER
INTO NEW MARKETS.
  4. NO SINGLE GRANT FOR A NICHE MARKET ASSISTANCE PROJECT SHALL  EXCEED
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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