S359-2013 Actions

• Jan 9, 2013: REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

S359-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S359

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the executive law, in relation to annual reports concerning
veteran-owned small businesses

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this bill is to require the New York State Division of
Veterans' Affairs to include an accounting of the number of
veteran owned small businesses in the State of New York in its annual
report to the governor and members of the Legislature.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
The bill would require in the Division of Veterans' Affairs annual
report to the governor and legislature an accounting of the number of
veteran-owned small businesses in the State of New York. This
information would be reported in two categories: small business
concern owned and controlled by veterans and small business concern
owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.

JUSTIFICATION:
There has been an increasing number of veterans who have returned
home from active military service and have started a small business.
Currently in New York State there is no listing of these types of
businesses owned and operated by veterans and disabled veterans. This
bill requires the division to contact each year the United States
Department of Veterans Affairs and any other appropriate federal
agencies to request this information and publish the results in the
division's annual report to the Governor and Legislature.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2011-12: A.7166A Passed Assembly
2012:    S.6973 Referred to Veterans, Homeland Security, and
         Military Affairs

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None to the State or local governments.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act takes effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become
a law.

S359-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                          359
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 (PREFILED)
 January 9, 2013
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi
 ty and Military Affairs
 

AN ACT to amend  the  executive  law,  in  relation  to  annual  reports
 concerning veteran-owned small businesses
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1.

Section 353 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 21 to read as follows:

 21. TO INCLUDE WITHIN THE ANNUAL REPORT  AS  REQUIRED  BY  SUBDIVISION
 ELEVEN  OF  THIS  SECTION  AN  ACCOUNTING OF THE NUMBER OF VETERAN-OWNED
 SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, TO BE LISTED BY THE FOLLOWING
 DESIGNATIONS: SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN OWNED AND  CONTROLLED  BY  VETERANS
 AND  SMALL  BUSINESS  CONCERN  OWNED  AND CONTROLLED BY SERVICE-DISABLED
 VETERANS. SUCH LISTING SHALL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO THE  NAME  OF
 THE  VETERAN  OWNER  OR  OWNERS  OF EACH BUSINESS, LOCATION OF EACH SUCH
 BUSINESS AND THE TYPE OF EACH SUCH BUSINESS. THE  TERM  "SMALL  BUSINESS
 CONCERN  OWNED  AND CONTROLLED BY VETERANS" AND THE TERM "SMALL BUSINESS
 CONCERN OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY SERVICE-DISABLED  VETERANS"  SHALL  HAVE
 THE  SAME  MEANING  SET  FORTH IN 15 U.S.C. SECTION 632(Q). THE DIVISION
 SHALL REQUEST THIS INFORMATION ANNUALLY FROM THE  U.S.    DEPARTMENT  OF
 VETERANS AFFAIRS AND ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE FEDERAL AGENCIES.
 

S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02480-01-3

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