S 2384: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2384 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE 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