S5570-2011 Actions

• Jun 20, 2011: SUBSTITUTED BY A7742A
• Jun 20, 2011: ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1394
• Jun 20, 2011: COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• Jun 2, 2011: REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

S5570-2011 Meetings

S5570-2011 Votes

S5570-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S5570

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
in relation to the designation of technology development centers and to
provide funding for such centers

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This legislation extends the
designation of entities as regional technology development centers.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 provides that entities
designated as regional technology development centers as of April 1,
2011 shall remain designated as such through at least March 31, 2012
and that contracts in effect as of April 1, 2011 shall be deemed
designated through at least March 31, 2012. The section also
establishes that funding shall not be less than the amount received
in the previous state fiscal year of 2010-2011.

Section 2 establishes an immediate effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
The Regional Technology Development centers/Technology
Development organizations (RTDCS/TDOS) are designated for five year
periods. The current designation for the ten centers will expire on
June 30, 2011. The designations are done through a competitive
process that has not yet been initiated. It will be very difficult to
complete the competitive reprocess within the necessary timeframe.
without formal designation/contract, the RTDCs/TDOs will not be able
to receive federal funds to help fulfill their mission. This
legislation will simply extend the current designation.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
None.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The TDO program and the related Industrial
Technology Extension Service (ITES) (administered by the RTDCs) have
already been appropriated funds in the SFY 2011-12 enacted budget to
the amounts of $1,312,000 for the TDO program and $921,000 for ITES.
This bill would have no additional fiscal impact.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately,

S5570-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         5570
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 June 2, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  ALESI,  GRIFFO,  LIBOUS -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on
 Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business
 AN  ACT in relation to the designation of technology development centers
 and to provide funding for such centers
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of section 3102-d of
 the public authorities law, entities designated as  regional  technology
 development  centers,  as  provided  in  NYCRR section 5901.6, as of the
 first of April 2011 shall remain so designated for  not  less  than  one
 year through the thirty-first of March 2012.
 Notwithstanding  any  other provisions of section 3102-d of the public
 authorities law, contracts in effect as of the first of April 2011 shall
 be deemed so designated through  the  thirty-first  of  March  2012  and
 regional  high technology development organizations, designated pursuant
 to section 5901.6 of NYCRR, shall continue to receive funding as  appro
 priated in chapter 53 of the laws of 2011.
 Such  funding shall not be less than the amount received in the previ
 ous state fiscal year of 2010-2011.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11198-04-1

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