New York A 11346: Requires the division of small business to conduct a study on certain stakeholder interest in a pilot program matching small businesses with content creators

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A11346 Summary:

BILL NOA11346 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRules (Cunningham)

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Add §134-a, Ec Dev L

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Requires the division of small business to conduct a study on stakeholder interest in a pilot program matching small businesses with content creators on or before January 1, 2027.

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BILL NOA11346 

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05/12/2026referred to small business

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 11346

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 12, 2026
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 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cunningham)
 -- read once and referred to the Committee on Small Business

 AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to requiring
 the division of small business to conduct a study on certain stake-
 holder interest in a pilot program matching small businesses with
 content creators; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
 expiration thereof

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

 1 Section 1. The economic development law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 134-a to read as follows:
 3 § 134-a. Small business and content creator study. 1. For the purposes
 4 of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 5 (a) "Content creator" means a person who creates material to be shared
 6 publicly on a social media platform.
 7 (b) "Small business" means a retail establishment that has annual
 8 gross revenues of less than five million dollars and employs twenty-five
 9 or fewer employees. For purposes of determining whether an entity quali-
 10 fies as a small business, the revenues of any parent entity, any subsid-
 11 iary entities, and any entities owned or controlled by a common parent
 12 entity shall be aggregated.
 13 2. On or before January first, two thousand twenty-seven, the division
 14 for small-business shall conduct a study by engaging in public outreach
 15 to businesses and stakeholders to assess the amount of interest content
 16 creators and small businesses have in participating in a pilot program
 17 in which small businesses looking for support with marketing and adver-
 18 tisement are matched with content creators who can use their social
 19 media platforms to bring attention to such small businesses.
 20 3. The division for small-business shall prepare a report on the find-
 21 ings made by the study pursuant to subdivision two of this section. The
 22 division for small-business shall transmit such report along with the
 23 study to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the temporary presi-
 24 dent of the senate, the chair of the assembly small business committee,
 25 the chair of the assembly economic development committee and the chair

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15836-01-6

 A. 11346 2

 1 of the senate commerce, economic development and small business commit-
 2 tee no later than thirty days after the completion of such study.
 3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 4 deemed repealed January 1, 2028.

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