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S 10270 NY

Relates to financial assistance from an industrial development agency; repealer

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced May 11, 2026

Latest action (May 11, 2026) REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Summary

This bill repeals and amends provisions of New York's General Municipal Law relating to financial assistance from industrial development agencies. The bill removes a provision that allowed financial assistance for retail projects located in highly distressed areas. Under current law, retail projects can receive industrial development agency financial assistance if they provide goods or services that would otherwise be inaccessible to local residents. The bill retains only this accessibility criterion and eliminates the option of qualifying for assistance based on being located in a highly distressed area. This change makes it more restrictive for retail projects to obtain industrial development agency financial assistance by removing the highly distressed area eligibility path.

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Official abstract

Repeals provisions related to requiring projects be located in a highly distressed area in order to qualify for certain financial assistance from an industrial development agency.

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  1. May 11, 2026 REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT · upper

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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S10270 Summary: BILL NO S10270 &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A01056

&nbsp SPONSOR SKOUFIS &nbsp COSPNSR &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Rpld §854 sub 18, amd §862, Gen Muni L &nbsp Repeals provisions related to requiring projects be located in a highly distressed area in order to qualify for certain financial assistance from an industrial development agency.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

10270

IN SENATE

May 11, 2026 ___________

Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to financial assistance from an industrial development agency; and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto

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

1 Section 1. Subdivision 18 of section 854 of the general municipal law 2 is REPEALED. 3 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 862 of the general 4 municipal law, as added by section 1 of part J of chapter 59 of the laws 5 of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 6 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi- 7 sion, financial assistance may, however, be provided to a project where 8 facilities or property that are primarily used in making retail sales of 9 goods or services to customers who personally visit such facilities to 10 obtain such goods or services constitute more than one-third of the 11 total project cost, where[ : (i) ] the predominant purpose of the project 12 would be to make available goods or services which would not, but for 13 the project, be reasonably accessible to the residents of the city, 14 town, or village within which the proposed project would be located 15 because of a lack of reasonably accessible retail trade facilities 16 offering such goods or services[ ; or (ii) the project is located in a 17 highly distressed area ]. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00441-01-5

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