Relates to requiring companies receiving funding under the economic development law to disclose the number of its employees having been issued an H1-B visa.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5868
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. LALOR, DeSTEFANO, FINCH, MONTESANO, RAIA, SALKA
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to company
disclosure of employees having H1-B visas
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 47 of section 100 of the economic development
2 law, as renumbered by chapter 427 of the laws of 2008, is renumbered
3 subdivision 48 and a new subdivision 47 is added to read as follows:
4 47. The commissioner shall require any company receiving funding
5 pursuant to this chapter to disclose the number of its total employees
6 issued an H1-B visa by United States citizenship and immigration
7 services in the department of homeland security.
8 § 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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