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Assembly Bill A10409

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Excludes child day care providers from restrictions on receiving financial assistance from industrial development agencies

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Bill Amendments

2025-A10409 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9484
Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §862, Gen Muni L

2025-A10409 - Summary

Excludes child day care providers from restrictions on receiving financial assistance from industrial development agencies.

2025-A10409 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10409
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 3, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general municipal law, in relation to excluding
   child day care providers  from  restrictions  on  receiving  financial
   assistance from industrial development agencies
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 862 of the gener-
 al municipal law, as added by section 1 of part J of chapter 59  of  the
 laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subdivision, no finan-
 cial  assistance  of  the  agency  shall  be  provided in respect of any
 project where facilities or property that are primarily used  in  making
 retail  sales  to customers who personally visit such facilities consti-
 tute more than one-third of the total project cost. For the purposes  of
 this  article,  "retail  sales"  shall  mean:  (i) sales by a registered
 vendor under article twenty-eight of the tax law  primarily  engaged  in
 the  retail  sale  of tangible personal property, as defined in subpara-
 graph (i) of paragraph four of subdivision (b) of section eleven hundred
 one of the tax law; or (ii)  sales  of  a  service  to  such  customers.
 Except,  however, that tourism destination projects shall not be prohib-
 ited by this subdivision. For the purpose of  this  paragraph,  "tourism
 destination"  shall  mean  a  location  or  facility  which is likely to
 attract a significant number  of  visitors  from  outside  the  economic
 development  region  as established by section two hundred thirty of the
 economic development law, in which the project  is  located.    PROVIDED
 FURTHER, HOWEVER, THAT CHILD DAY CARE PROVIDERS, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED
 PURSUANT  TO  PARAGRAPH  (B) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED
 NINETY OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW,  SHALL  NOT  BE  PROHIBITED  BY  THIS
 SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14570-01-6

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2025-A10409A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9484
Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §862, Gen Muni L

2025-A10409A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes child day care providers from restrictions on receiving financial assistance from industrial development agencies.

2025-A10409A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10409--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 3, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee  on  Local  Governments  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  excluding
   child  day  care  providers  from  restrictions on receiving financial
   assistance from industrial development agencies; and providing for the
   repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 862 of the general municipal law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
   (D) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF  THIS  SUBDIVI-
 SION  TO THE CONTRARY, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE MAY, HOWEVER, BE PROVIDED TO
 A PROJECT WHERE THE SOLE  PURPOSE  OF  THE  PROJECT  WOULD  BE  FOR  THE
 CONSTRUCTION,  RECONSTRUCTION, ACQUISITION AND/OR IMPROVEMENT OF A CHILD
 DAY CARE CENTER, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED PURSUANT TO  PARAGRAPH  (C)  OF
 SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES
 LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall remain  in  full
 force  and  effect  until  December  31, 2028, at which time it shall be
 deemed repealed.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14570-02-6

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