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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8711
IN SENATE
January 7, 2026
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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.
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