S2384 • 2025

Relates to the eligibility criteria for the excelsior jobs program act

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Sponsor: James Skoufis
Last action: 2026-04-29
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the eligibility criteria for the excelsior jobs program act

Relates to the eligibility criteria for the excelsior jobs program act Requires a business entity in violation of worker protection or environmental laws and regulations to surrender all previous state subsidies issued to such business entity.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the eligibility criteria for the excelsior jobs program act Requires a business entity in violation of worker protection or environmental laws and regulations to surrender all previous state subsidies issued to such business entity.

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Bill History

2026-04-29 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS
2025-03-12 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2025-01-16 Senate
REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Official Summary Text

Relates to the eligibility criteria for the excelsior jobs program act
Requires a business entity in violation of worker protection or environmental laws and regulations to surrender all previous state subsidies issued to such business entity.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          2384

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 16, 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 the eligi-
          bility criteria for the excelsior jobs program act

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6 of section 353 of the economic development
     2  law, as amended by section 2 of part G of chapter  61  of  the  laws  of
     3  2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    6.  A business entity must be in compliance with all worker protection
     5  and environmental laws and regulations. In addition, a  business  entity
     6  may  not  owe past due state taxes or local property taxes. IN THE EVENT
     7  THAT A BUSINESS ENTITY IS FOUND TO HAVE VIOLATED SUCH WORKER  PROTECTION
     8  OR ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS, PENDING A FULL AUDIT BY THE STATE
     9  COMPTROLLER,  THE  STATE SHALL ORDER THE SURRENDER OF ALL PREVIOUS STATE
    10  SUBSIDIES ISSUED TO SUCH BUSINESS ENTITY.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01858-01-5