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S04896 Summary:

BILL NOS04896 

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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Add Art 28 §§500 - 504, Ec Dev L

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Establishes the incentive evaluation act; creates the incentive evaluation commission to at least once every four years evaluate each incentive provided by the state and report to the governor and the legislature on their effectiveness and provide recommendations relating thereto.

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02/14/2025REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

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

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4896

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 establish-
 ing the incentive evaluation act

 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 28 to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 28
 4 INCENTIVE EVALUATION ACT
 5 Section 500. Short title.
 6 501. Definitions.
 7 502. Incentive evaluation commission.
 8 503. Periodic evaluations.
 9 504. Evaluation process.
 10 § 500. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as
 11 the "incentive evaluation act".
 12 § 501. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
 13 have the following meanings:
 14 1. "business entity" shall mean any person, corporation, partnership,
 15 sole proprietor, limited partnership, association or any other business
 16 entity.
 17 2. "commission" shall mean the incentive evaluation commission estab-
 18 lished under this article.
 19 3. "incentive" shall mean a tax credit, tax exemption, tax deduction,
 20 tax expenditure, rebate, grant, or loan that is intended to encourage
 21 businesses to locate, expand, invest, or remain in New York, or to hire
 22 or retain employees in New York.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09441-02-5

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 1 4. "substantial interest" shall mean the ownership, directly or indi-
 2 rectly, of more than fifty percent of the equity interest with voting
 3 rights of a business entity.
 4 § 502. Incentive evaluation commission. 1. There is hereby established
 5 the incentive evaluation commission consisting of:
 6 (a) A certified public accountant appointed by the state comptroller;
 7 (b) A chartered financial analyst appointed by the speaker of the
 8 assembly;
 9 (c) An auditor who is employed as an internal auditor by a company or
 10 who is employed by a private auditing firm appointed by the state comp-
 11 troller;
 12 (d) An economist from a New York college or university appointed by
 13 the temporary president of the senate;
 14 (e) A lay person who is not an elected official appointed by the
 15 governor;
 16 (f) The commissioner of the department of taxation and finance or
 17 their designee who is also a member of the department of taxation and
 18 finance, which shall be an ex officio and nonvoting position;
 19 (g) The director of the authorities budget office or their designee
 20 who is an employee of the authorities budget office which shall be an ex
 21 officio and nonvoting position; and
 22 (h) The commissioner or their designee who is an employee of empire
 23 state development which shall be an ex officio and nonvoting position.
 24 2. Initial appointments to the commission of voting members shall
 25 occur within ninety days of the effective date of this article and such
 26 members shall have their term expire on the thirty-first of December
 27 next succeeding the ninetieth day after the effective date of this arti-
 28 cle. Thereafter, such members shall be appointed for terms of four years
 29 beginning on January first. Any vacancy shall be filled