S8711 • 2025

Includes certain companies engaging in hospitality or tourism which primarily promote the sale, marketing, production, harvesting, or use of certain agricultural products in the excelsior jobs program

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Sponsor: Michelle Hinchey
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Includes certain companies engaging in hospitality or tourism which primarily promote the sale, marketing, production, harvesting, or use of certain agricultural products in the excelsior jobs program

Includes certain companies engaging in hospitality or tourism which primarily promote the sale, marketing, production, harvesting, or use of certain agricultural products in the excelsior jobs program Includes certain companies engaging in hospitality or tourism which primarily promote the sale, marketing, production, harvesting, or use of certain agricultural products or food or drinks in the excelsior jobs program.

What This Bill Does

Includes certain companies engaging in hospitality or tourism which primarily promote the sale, marketing, production, harvesting, or use of certain agricultural products in the excelsior jobs program Includes certain companies engaging in hospitality or tourism which primarily promote the sale, marketing, production, harvesting, or use of certain agricultural products or food or drinks in the excelsior jobs program.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-05-05 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-04 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-04-29 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.875
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Official Summary Text

Includes certain companies engaging in hospitality or tourism which primarily promote the sale, marketing, production, harvesting, or use of certain agricultural products in the excelsior jobs program
Includes certain companies engaging in hospitality or tourism which primarily promote the sale, marketing, production, harvesting, or use of certain agricultural products or food or drinks in the excelsior jobs program.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8711

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     January 7, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 including
          certain companies engaging in hospitality or tourism  which  primarily
          promote the sale, marketing, production, harvesting, or use of certain
          agricultural products or food or drinks in the excelsior jobs program

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (n) and (o) of subdivision 1 of section  353  of
     2  the economic development law, paragraph (n) as amended and paragraph (o)
     3  as  added  by section 2 of subpart A of part H of chapter 59 of the laws
     4  of 2025, are amended and a  new  paragraph  (p)  is  added  to  read  as
     5  follows:
     6    (n) as a Green CHIPS project; [or]
     7    (o)  as  a  company operating in one of the industries listed in para-
     8  graphs (a) through (k) of this subdivision and engaging in a semiconduc-
     9  tor supply chain project as defined in section three  hundred  fifty-two
    10  of this article[.]; OR
    11    (P)  AS A COMPANY OPERATING IN THE INDUSTRY LISTED IN PARAGRAPH (E) OF
    12  THIS SUBDIVISION AND ENGAGING IN HOSPITALITY OR TOURISM WHICH  PRIMARILY
    13  PROMOTES  THE  SALE,  MARKETING,  PRODUCTION,  HARVESTING, OR USE OF THE
    14  AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT OR ANY PRODUCT DESIGNED FOR FOOD OR DRINK  MANUFAC-
    15  TURED OR PREPARED ONSITE PRINCIPALLY FROM AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13628-02-5