New York S 6012: Relates to authorizing local municipalities to establish tourism improvement districts

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S06012 Summary:

BILL NOS06012 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBASKIN

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 23 §§447 - 458, Ec Dev L

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Authorizes local municipalities to establish or expand tourism improvement districts and provide services thereto.

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BILL NOS06012 

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03/04/2025REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

04/29/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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

05/13/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6012

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BASKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Devel-
 opment and Small Business

 AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to authorizing
 local municipalities to establish tourism improvement districts

 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 article 23 to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 23
 4 TOURISM IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS
 5 Section 447. Definitions.
 6 448. District plan.
 7 449. Powers and duties.
 8 450. Notice and hearing.
 9 451. Establishment or extension of the district.
 10 452. Publication, filing and judicial review.
 11 453. Amendments to the district plan.
 12 454. Expense of the district.
 13 455. Expenditure of district funds.
 14 456. District management association.
 15 457. Dissolution.
 16 458. Severability.
 17 § 447. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
 18 terms shall have the following meanings:
 19 1. "Assessment" means a levy imposed on behalf of the district on a
 20 business as provided in the district plan.
 21 2. "Business" shall be defined as a hotel, motel, inn, bed and break-
 22 fast or any lodging facility that provides common hotel services,
 23 including housekeeping services and food services. "Business" shall not

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05718-01-5

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 1 include free standing single family dwelling units, including but not
 2 limited to, bungalows, cottages, or cabins.
 3 3. "Benefited business" means businesses located within a district,
 4 which benefit from district improvements based on a rational nexus test.
 5 Districts may include one or more types of businesses. Businesses need
 6 not profit equally to be considered to have benefited. Assessed busi-
 7 nesses located in a tourism improvement district are not required to be
 8 contiguous.
 9 4. "Business assessment" means any assessment made pursuant to this
 10 article upon a business.
 11 5. "Business owner" means any person recognized by a municipality as
 12 the owner of the business.
 13 6. "District" means a tourism improvement district established pursu-
 14 ant to this article, which may include an entire county or multiple
 15 counties provided that a district may not overlap in whole or in part
 16 with a city with a population of one million or more.
 17 7. "District management association" means the association established
 18 pursuant to section four hundred fifty-six of this article.
 19 8. "District plan" or "plan" means a proposal as described in section
 20 four hundred forty-eight of this article.
 21 9. "Legislative body" means the local legislative body of a munici-
 22 pality empowered to adopt and amend local laws or ordinances.
 23 10. "Municipality" means a county within the state of New York, except
 24 counties located within a city with a population of one million or more.
 25 In a district which includes more than one municipality, the munici-
 26 pality in which the district plan is filed shall be the lead munici-
 27 pality of the district. The county which shall serve as the lead munici-
 28 pality may not form a district within the territorial jurisdiction of
 29 another county without