Source: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/s8551
Timestamp: 2020-06-04 14:22:42
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Matched Legal Cases: ['Art 9', '§216', '§ 216', '§ 217', '§ 218', '§ 219']

NY State Senate Bill S8551
senate Bill S8551
Creates the micro business outreach center assistance program and micro business outreach center
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S8551 (ACTIVE) - Details
Add Art 9-B §§216 - 219, Ec Dev L
2009-2010: S5639, S7968, A10471, A3193
2011-2012: S1876, S2825, A6669
2013-2014: S4574, A4358
2015-2016: S3443, A3559, A7796
S8551 (ACTIVE) - Summary
S8551 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8551
relation to creating the micro business outreach center assistance
To create a means of supporting existing business outreach centers and
creating additional centers that are serving micro enterprises as well
as providing them with the opportunity to facilitate individuals of
communities that are geographically and socially isolated from the main-
stream economy with access to economic development counseling services
Adds a new Article 9-B to the economic development law thereby creating
the micro business outreach center assistance program.
Small businesses are the backbone of every community. In this difficult
economy, small businesses are the source of the majority of new jobs.
Daily, more and more individuals realize the opportunities that exist
for people who have their own businesses and the benefits that such
small businesses provide to the surrounding community. In New York
State, many people that have a talent or idea could become a very
successful enterprise if only they knew how to implement it.  These are
the types of people who are potential micro-enterprise owners-proprie-
tors of businesses that begin with five or less employees including the
owner, require less than $50,000 in startup capital, and do not have
access to the traditional commercial banking sector. Microbusinesses and
start-ups have the largest unmet financing needs with 63% and 58%,
respectively, reporting a financial shortfall.
Business outreach centers take hard working men and women who may not
have the knowledge or experience of how to create a micro business and
provide them with the tools they need to start an enterprise; whether it
is teaching the individual how to write a business plan or matching the
eager entrepreneur with a reasonable loan. With the help of business
outreach centers the American dream is actually achievable. These
programs are most helpful to minorities, women, and immigrant communi-
ties who might not have access to capital and are therefore ineligible
to receive loans in the eyes of most major lending companies.
Between 2007 and 2016, there was an increase of 3.5 million women-owned
firms. Fully 78% of these net new women-owned firms (nearly 2.8 million)
are firms owned by women of color - an average of 842 net new minority
women-owned firms were launched each day over the past nine years. As of
2012, there were 709,021 minority-owned businesses and 725,709 women-
owned businesses in New York, many of them small businesses.  This has
been able to occur through the hard work of centers that are already in
existence in the New York Metropolitan area. Studies by the Aspen Insti-
tute have even shown that these types of services help move the work-
ing-poor out of poverty. When women, immigrant, and minority populations
have the opportunity to become successful, self-supporting business
people that cater to the needs of their individual communities, local
areas are revitalized and the entire State benefits.
This legislation ensures that business outreach centers serving micro-
enterprises will be able to receive federal funding as well as provide
the opportunity and benefits of these services to a greater population
throughout New York State thereby increasing both community wealth and
employment opportunities. The State has historically been financially
supportive of many such programs and this legislation seeks to ensure
that such support continues into the future and is provided to a greater
2000: A.11029/S.7743B
2001-02: A.2789A/S.122A
2003-04: A.927
2005-06: A.6704A/S.4063A
2007-08: A.2766/S.1338
2009: A.3193/S.5639
2010: A.10471/S.7968
2011-12: A.6669/S.2825
2013-14: A.4358/S.4574
2015-16: A.7796/S.3443
This act shall take effect on the one hundred and eightieth (180) day
S8551 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
AN  ACT  to  amend the economic development law, in relation to creating
the micro business outreach center assistance program
article 9-B to read as follows:
MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
SECTION 216. DEFINITIONS.
217. MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTERS.
218. MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK.
219. REPORTING REQUIREMENT.
§ 216. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THIS  ARTICLE  THE  FOLLOWING
1.  "MICRO  BUSINESS" SHALL MEAN A SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP, PARTNERSHIP OR
FAMILY BUSINESS THAT HAS FEWER THAN FIVE EMPLOYEES.
2. "MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTERS" SHALL MEAN  A  BUSINESS  OUTREACH
CENTER  THAT  SERVES THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT NEEDS OF SPECIFIC COMMUNI-
3. "MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK" SHALL MEAN  A  NETWORK  OF
BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTERS THAT PROVIDES SERVICES THROUGHOUT A REGION AND
HELPS  DEVELOP  AND  ASSIST  INDIVIDUAL  MICRO-ENTERPRISE/SMALL BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT  ORGANIZATIONS  IN  THE  DELIVERY  OF  CUSTOMIZED   BUSINESS
SERVICES  TO  ENTREPRENEURS,  AS  WELL  AS CAPACITY-BUILDING SERVICES TO
ORGANIZATIONS ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING COMMUNITY AND  MICRO-ENTERPRISE
§ 217. MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTERS. 1. THERE IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED
WITHIN  THE  DEPARTMENT  A  MICRO  BUSINESS  OUTREACH  CENTER ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM. THE DEPARTMENT IS AUTHORIZED, WITHIN AMOUNTS  APPROPRIATED,  TO
PROVIDE  DIRECT TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE MICRO BUSINESS
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OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK, A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION, FOR THE FOLLOWING
(A)  TO ASSIST THE MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER IN SETTING UP, OR TO
ASSIST THE CENTER IN HELPING  LOCAL  SPONSOR  ORGANIZATIONS  AND/OR  NEW
ORGANIZATIONS  TO  SET UP ADDITIONAL MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTERS, IN
GEOGRAPHIC AREAS OF THE STATE THAT ARE WIDELY-SEPARATED FROM EACH  OTHER
BUT  ARE IN NEED OF, AND WOULD LIKELY BENEFIT FROM, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
SUCH CENTER;
(B) TO ASSIST THE MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER IN PROVIDING AID  FOR
THE  OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ADDITIONAL MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH
CENTERS SO CREATED AS WELL AS FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE  OF  ITS
PRESENTLY EXISTING AFFILIATED MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTERS; AND
(C)  TO  ASSIST  THE  MICRO  BUSINESS  OUTREACH  CENTER  TO EXPAND THE
CENTER'S COORDINATION OF NETWORKING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE  ACTIVITIES
AMONG ALL MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTERS.
2.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  PROVIDE MONIES, WITHIN AVAILABLE APPROPRI-
ATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO A COMMUNITY NEED FOR THE MICRO BUSINESS  OUTREACH
CENTERS  NETWORK.  THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH CRITERIA FOR SELECTION
AND DESIGNATION OF SUCH MICRO  BUSINESS  OUTREACH  CENTERS  WHICH  SHALL
(A)  COMMUNITIES THAT ARE GEOGRAPHICALLY AND/OR SOCIALLY ISOLATED FROM
THE MAINSTREAM ECONOMY;
(B) A COORDINATED NETWORK  OF  CLIENT  INFORMATION  SYSTEMS,  REGIONAL
LINKAGES, AND OPERATIONAL GUIDELINES;
(C)  A  MODEL  THAT  MAXIMIZES  THE  EFFICIENT  USE OF SCARCE EXISTING
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES, ADDRESSES THE RECOGNIZED NEED  FOR  PRE-
LOAN AND POST LOAN TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR GROWING SMALL BUSINESS;
(D)  FACILITATING  ACCESS  TO  THE  COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURE OF ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AND SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES, CONNECTING SMALL BUSI-
NESS TO NEEDED INFORMATION AND CAPITAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.
3. ASSISTANCE, SERVICES AND DATA AS  WILL  ENABLE  THE  DEPARTMENT  TO
PROPERLY  CARRY OUT ITS FUNCTIONS, POWERS, AND DUTIES UNDER THIS ARTICLE
SHALL BE PROVIDED BY THE COMMISSIONER AND TO ACCOMPLISH  THE  SAME,  THE
COMMISSIONER  MAY  REQUEST  THE  ASSISTANCE OF OTHER AGENCIES AND PUBLIC
CORPORATIONS AND DISTRICTS.
§ 218. MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER  NETWORK.  1.  THERE  IS  HEREBY
ESTABLISHED  WITHIN  THE  DEPARTMENT  A  MICRO  BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER
NETWORK. THE DEPARTMENT IS AUTHORIZED  WITHIN  AMOUNTS  APPROPRIATED  TO
(A) TO ASSIST THE MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER  NETWORK  IN  SETTING
UP,  OR  TO  ASSIST  THE  CENTER  IN HELPING LOCAL SPONSOR ORGANIZATIONS
AND/OR NEW ORGANIZATIONS TO SET UP ADDITIONAL  MICRO  BUSINESS  OUTREACH
CENTERS, IN GEOGRAPHIC AREAS OF THE STATE THAT ARE WIDELY-SEPARATED FROM
EACH OTHER BUT ARE IN NEED OF, AND WOULD LIKELY BENEFIT FROM, THE ESTAB-
LISHMENT OF SUCH CENTER;
(B)  TO ASSIST THE MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK IN PROVIDING
AID FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ADDITIONAL  MICRO  BUSINESS
OUTREACH CENTERS SO CREATED AS WELL AS FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
OF  ITS  PRESENTLY  EXISTING AFFILIATED MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTERS;
(C) TO ASSIST THE MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK TO EXPAND THE
CENTER'S  COORDINATION OF NETWORKING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ACTIVITIES
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2. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE  MONIES,  WITHIN  AVAILABLE  APPROPRI-
ATIONS,  IN RESPONSE TO A COMMUNITY NEED FOR THE MICRO BUSINESS OUTREACH
CENTERS NETWORK. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH CRITERIA  FOR  SELECTION
AND  DESTINATION  OF  SUCH  MICRO  BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTERS WHICH SHALL
§ 219. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL MONITOR THE  EFFEC-
TIVENESS OF THE DIRECT TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IT PROVIDES TO
THE  MICRO  BUSINESS  OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK, INCORPORATED, IN ORDER TO
DETERMINE AND REPORT TO WHAT EXTENT THE GOALS SPECIFIED IN THIS  SECTION
HAVE  BEEN  ACHIEVED.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  MAKE AND FILE AN ANNUAL
THE ASSEMBLY WITHIN THIRTY DAYS  FOLLOWING  THE  CLOSE  OF  THE  STATE'S
FISCAL  YEAR  CONTAINING THE RESULTS OF SUCH MONITORING PURSUANT TO THIS
SECTION. SUCH ANNUAL REPORT SHALL CONTAIN  RECOMMENDATIONS  FOR  FURTHER
LEGISLATION TO IMPLEMENT THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE IF IN THE JUDGMENT
OF  THE  COMMISSIONER NEW LEGISLATION TO FURTHER EFFECTUATE THE PURPOSES
OF THIS ARTICLE IS WARRANTED.