Establishes the wine industry and liquor store development act; authorizes grocery or drug store wine licenses and temporary retail permits. / Sponsor: O'MARA Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Establishes the TechNet training network to improve the quantity and quality of science, technology and engineering degree programs. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Enacts the minimum standards for subsidized jobs act; provides that entities eligible to receive economic development subsidies must: pay each employee a minimum wage that's at least one dollar higher than state minimum wage levels; offer health insurance benefit plans to employees employed at least 35 hours per week; and offer at least twenty percent of its workers a worker training program. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Enacts the economic development program evaluation act and prescribes the functions and purposes of the special evaluation program bond act; requires state agencies involved in economic development activities to prepare an annual comprehensive evaluation of their programs. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Relates to the maintenance of a database on intellectual property generated by state employees or developed through state-funded research which shall include, at a minimum, a brief description of the intellectual property and up-to-date contact information for each item. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Creates the office of intellectual property asset management which authorizes an appointed chairperson to head an advisory council to establish policy; defines terms; requires reports to the governor and legislature. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Provides for enhanced municipal or, in New York city, community board input in the liquor authority's decision to license establishments serving alcohol for on-premises consumption; provides for increased notice and more meaningful opportunity to be heard. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Establishes the Empire State Fishing Trail program within the department of economic development to promote fishing within the state and ensure that fishing tournaments are conducted in the state. / Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Authorizes the job development authority to create and administer the bank export incentive program for the investment and lending of monies which may be borrowed by certain eligible New York firms for business projects; directs the commissioner of the department of economic development to assist in the promotion of such program; defines terms. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Enacts the wine industry and liquor store revitalization act; authorizes grocery and drug stores to sell wine on their premises for consumption off the premises. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Relates to the sale of tonic water, bitters and maraschino cherries at liquor stores. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Prohibits the transfer of liquor licenses from one owner to subsequent owners of the same establishment, bar or club; grants new owners a forty-five day temporary license in which time such new owner shall apply for a new liquor license pursuant to section sixty-four of the alcoholic beverage control law. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Provides for the recovery of an economic development award in any case where a recipient relocates outside the state within five years of receiving such award; repayment of any such award shall be made pursuant to the timeframe specified in the award agreement. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Permits the sale of food items complementary to wine by retailers licensed to sell liquor at retail for consumption off premises, such food items to be sold only at the same time as one or more bottles of wine. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Relates to the siting of certain premises, located in cities with a population in excess of one million, licensed to sell liquor for consumption on the premises; provides that required distances from schools and places of worship and from existing licensed premises shall be measured from the closest boundary lines instead of from the center of the entrances of such premises. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Authorizes commissioner of economic development to grant matching funds to eligible applicants to implement the Hudson Valley agricultural regional marketing program, defined as the use of media advertising and promotional materials for purposes of marketing agricultural production within the region. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Authorizes the use of innovative techniques to enhance public participation in the rule making process; provides that use of such techniques shall in no way otherwise diminish public participation in the rule making process; establishes a three year pilot project for seven major regulatory agencies to hold public hearings upon petition of 125 or more New York residents. / Sponsor: GIANARIS Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Creates the micro business outreach center assistance program within the department of economic development, and provides for its functions, powers and duties; further creates the micro business outreach center network; establishes a reporting requirement by the commissioner of economic development. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Provides for the certification and training of state agency purchasing personnel; requires the department of economic development to establish and administer a system of training, continuing education and certification of state agency purchasing personnel. / Sponsor: BRESLIN Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Recodifies the small business innovation research program within the New York state office of science, technology and academic research; alters provisions under the small business innovation research program particularly as they affect Phase I award winners; prohibits arbitrary exclusion of technologies and companies; provides for matching of federal funds, to a certain extent. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS