Bill Text: NY S07347 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the empire state development corporation to conduct a study on the economic impact of the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival) and submit a report to the governor and the legislature on its findings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS [S07347 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07347-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7347

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
          opment and Small Business

        AN  ACT  requiring the empire state development corporation to conduct a
          study on the economic impact of the  Labor  Day  Parade  (West  Indian
          Carnival)

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

     1    Section 1. Report on economic impact of the  Labor  Day  Parade  (West
     2  Indian  Carnival).  1.  The  empire  state development corporation shall
     3  prepare a summary report on the economic impact of the Labor Day  Parade
     4  (West  Indian  Carnival)  held  in  the borough of Brooklyn. Such report
     5  shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
     6    a. the number of participants in such parade, including a breakdown of
     7  resident and non-resident participants;
     8    b. an estimate of money spent by participants in the parade  including
     9  but  not  limited  to expenditures on hotels and motels and restaurants;
    10  and
    11    c. an estimate of the  number  of  jobs  and/or  businesses  that  are
    12  supported  by participants as well as the amount of sales tax and income
    13  tax generated by such participants.
    14    2. The results of the report required by this act shall  be  submitted
    15  to  the  governor  and to the legislature no later than January 1, 2025,
    16  along with any legislative recommendations of the empire state  develop-
    17  ment  corporation  to  further  enhance the economic impact of Labor Day
    18  Parade (West Indian Carnival).
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08112-01-3