New York S 1865: Relates to membership of the board of the Niagara frontier authority

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S01865 Summary:

BILL NOS01865A

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SAME ASSAME AS A03955-A

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SPONSORMARTINEZ

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COSPNSRADDABBO, ASHBY, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, COONEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MURRAY, RHOADS, RYAN C

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 29 §§510 - 514, Ec Dev L; add §50, amd §§210-B & 606, Tax L

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Enacts the lift our communities advertise locally (LOCAL) program which provides a tax credit on advertising for locally owned minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises, certified service-disabled veteran-owned business enterprises or a small business.

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BILL NOS01865A

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01/14/2025REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

05/28/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

05/28/2025PRINT NUMBER 1865A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

04/29/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1865--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, ASHBY, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, COONEY,
 HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MURRAY, RHOADS, C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the economic development law and the tax law in relation
 to enacting the lift our communities advertise locally (LOCAL)
 program; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
 tion thereof

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "lift our communities advertise locally (LOCAL) program".
 3 § 2. The economic development law is amended by adding a new article
 4 29 to read as follows:
 5 ARTICLE 29
 6 LIFT OUR COMMUNITIES ADVERTISE LOCALLY PROGRAM
 7 Section 510. Short title.
 8 511. Definitions.
 9 512. Application and approval process.
 10 513. Local newspaper and broadcast media business advertising
 11 tax credit.
 12 514. Powers and duties of the commissioner.
 13 § 510. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as
 14 the "lift our communities advertise locally (LOCAL) program".
 15 § 511. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:
 16 1. "Certificate of tax credit" shall mean the document issued to an
 17 eligible business by the department after the department has verified
 18 that such eligible business has met all applicable eligibility criteria
 19 under this article. The certificate shall specify the exact amount of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02719-02-5

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 1 the tax credit under this article that an eligible business may claim,
 2 pursuant to section five hundred thirteen and section five hundred four-
 3 teen of this article.
 4 2. "Eligible business" shall mean a minority-owned business enterprise
 5 as defined in section three hundred ten of the executive law, a women-
 6 owned business enterprise as defined in section three hundred ten of the
 7 executive law, a certified service-disabled veteran-owned business
 8 enterprise as defined in section forty of the veterans' services law, or
 9 a small business as defined in this section.
 10 3. "Excluded organization" shall mean:
 11 (a) an organization described in subsection four, five or six of
 12 section 501(c) of the United States internal revenue code;
 13 (b) a political organization as defined in section 527(e) of the
 14 United States internal revenue code;
 15 (c) any organizations that received more than one hundred thousand
 16 dollars, in the aggregate, from organizations described in paragraph (a)
 17 or (b) of this subdivision;
 18 (d) a publicly-traded company that reported at least one billion
 19 dollars in revenue, in the aggregate, during the immediately preceding
 20 four quarters; or
 21 (e) an organization t