Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Mar 30, 2022 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.585 substituted for s704b |
Mar 21, 2022 |
referred to finance delivered to senate passed assembly |
Mar 17, 2022 |
ordered to third reading cal.493 |
Mar 15, 2022 |
reported |
Jan 19, 2022 |
referred to economic development |
Assembly Bill A8932
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
STIRPE
Archive: Last Bill Status - Passed Senate & Assembly
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
Billy Jones
Rebecca Seawright
Andrew Hevesi
Fred Thiele
2021-A8932 (ACTIVE) - Details
2021-A8932 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Authorizes the empire state development corporation to develop a public awareness campaign promoting businesses located in New York state with an emphasis on small businesses and the need to shop in downtown local areas; requires the creation of the Buy New York Online Networking Directory to connect purchasers with businesses located in New York.
2021-A8932 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8932 I N A S S E M B L Y January 19, 2022 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT authorizing the empire state development corporation to develop a public awareness campaign promoting businesses located in New York state THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. 1. The empire state development corporation shall develop, establish and implement a public awareness campaign promoting businesses located in New York state and encouraging individuals and businesses to purchase products and services from such businesses, with an emphasis on the need to shop at and support local small businesses as defined pursu- ant to section 131 of the economic development law, as well as the need to shop at and support local downtown areas. 2. The campaign shall include an internet website providing informa- tion on businesses located in New York state and their available products and services including a Buy New York Online Networking Direc- tory. The owner of any business located and operated in this state may apply to the empire state development corporation to have his or her business included on such directory. The directory shall include, but not be limited to, participating businesses' names, addresses, contact information, including telephone number, fax, e-mail and website address, products or services offered with a brief description, and any additional information, including history, hours and dates of operation, and number of employees. The names of businesses participating in such directory shall be organized by specific categories based on the various goods or services that such business provides. Such directory shall be searchable by such specific categories including, but not limited to, small businesses as defined pursuant to section 131 of the economic development law. Such directory shall also include a search capability to allow for participating businesses to be searched by the products or services they offer. 3. The public awareness campaign shall be made available to the public by any means deemed appropriate by the empire state development corpo- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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