Bill Text: NY S03284 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the economic development performance review act; 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 performance review of their programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-21 - PRINT NUMBER 3284A [S03284 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03284-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3284--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
          opment and Small Business -- recommitted to the Committee on Commerce,
          Economic Development and Small Business in accordance with Senate Rule
          6,  sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to  establish-
          ing the economic development performance review act

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The economic development law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  article 15 to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 15
     4                 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE REVIEW ACT
     5  Section 270. Definition.
     6          271. Program implementation.
     7          272. Performance review.
     8    § 270. Definition. For purposes of this article, "economic development
     9  program"  shall mean a program that provides services for the purpose of
    10  effecting the economic conditions of the  state,  provides  training  or
    11  employment  services,  supports  an  economic  development  activity  by
    12  enhancing the skills of the state's workforce, prepares individuals  for
    13  employment,  improves  opportunities for individuals to become employed,
    14  or promotes the state economy.
    15    § 271. Program implementation. 1. On or before September first, in the
    16  year after this section became law, each state  agency  administratively
    17  responsible for economic development activities shall prepare a separate
    18  plan  for  each  program  that  such agency administers. Each plan shall
    19  include a description of proposed program activities, a description of a
    20  mechanism for funding distribution, program objectives, population to be
    21  served, institutions eligible to receive funds, and a description of the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  coordination and linkages between this program and other program  activ-
     2  ities  funded  separately.  Such  plan  shall also include a performance
     3  review component as part of the implementation  of  each  program  which
     4  shall  describe  how  the  agency  will monitor the delivery of services
     5  under the program and which shall set forth the measure of effectiveness
     6  of the services being provided.
     7    2. Program plans shall be submitted to the department, the speaker  of
     8  the  assembly  and the temporary president of the senate, for review and
     9  comment.
    10    3. The provisions of this section shall not  exempt  any  agency  from
    11  requirements relating to the preparation and submission of program plans
    12  pursuant to any other provision of law.
    13    §  272.  Performance  review. 1.   The performance review component of
    14  each program plan shall, at a minimum, include the following:
    15    (a) a statement on legislative history and intent;
    16    (b) a  statement  of  program  objectives  which  identifies  outcomes
    17  attributable to the program, anticipated performance levels, and indica-
    18  tors of the effectiveness of the program;
    19    (c)  defined  quantitative  measures which will be included as part of
    20  the  performance  review  report  including,  but  not  limited  to,   a
    21  description   of  the  targeted  population,  criteria  for  participant
    22  selection, demographics on participants, measures of  program  activity,
    23  inventory  of  services provided, and budget information on programs and
    24  administrative expenditures including, but not  limited  to,  costs  per
    25  participant.    For  those programs where an objective is job placement,
    26  data shall include information on  the  occupations  which  participants
    27  enter,  the  rate  of job retention, pre-program wage earnings and post-
    28  program wage earnings as well as other appropriate measures which  indi-
    29  cate  the  extent  to  which program activities meet program objectives.
    30  Other performance indicators that appropriately describe the  effect  of
    31  the  program  and  data which reflects follow-up activity appropriate to
    32  the services provided shall also be included as part of the  performance
    33  review report;
    34    (d)  a  statement  of methodology which will result in a comparison of
    35  program outcomes against program objectives; and
    36    (e) any  additional  performance  review  or  information  as  may  be
    37  required by law.
    38    2. (a) The performance review report for each program shall be submit-
    39  ted to the commissioner for review and recommendation.
    40    (b)  The  report  shall include, at a minimum, all program data and an
    41  analysis which compares performance outcomes against program  objectives
    42  as  specified  in  the  performance review component of the program plan
    43  defined herein and shall include a performance review  of  activity  for
    44  the  completed  program  year  immediately preceding the issuance of the
    45  report and an interim performance review of current program year  activ-
    46  ity if applicable.
    47    3. Based on the review conducted pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivi-
    48  sion two of this section, the department shall prepare a unified summary
    49  of  performance review reports submitted by each agency pursuant to this
    50  article for submission to the speaker of the assembly and the  temporary
    51  president of the senate no later than January thirty-first, two thousand
    52  twenty-three  and  each  year  thereafter  provided,  however,  that the
    53  department shall make  available  each  individual  program  performance
    54  review  report  submitted  pursuant  to this article upon request of the
    55  legislature. The department shall include in  such  summary  recommenda-
    56  tions  to  the governor and the legislature relating to improved program
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     1  coordination and service delivery, program improvements or  enhancements
     2  and necessary statutory changes.
     3    4.  The  provisions  of  this section shall not exempt any agency from
     4  requirements pursuant to any other provision of law.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.