Small companies can have a neater time accessing state authorities and free packages designed to assist them develop, below two payments signed into legislation by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday night time.
One invoice stipulates that an worker be named “small enterprise liaison” within the state departments of agriculture/markets, environmental conservation, labor, transportation and taxation/finance. Every company regulates small enterprise actions throughout the state, the laws states.
The liaison will likely be a contact particular person for small enterprise homeowners, function their advocate inside the company and work on outreach packages for them. The liaison’s contact info should be prominently displayed on the company’s web site, the laws states.
The opposite invoice stipulates that details about free sources for small enterprise homeowners be offered to them after they register their company identify with the Secretary of State’s workplace.
The data should embrace regional contacts for the Small Enterprise Growth Facilities and Entrepreneurship Help Facilities, each of them situated on school campuses throughout the state; Empire State Growth, the state’s major business-aid company, and its on-line Enterprise Mentor NY program.
New York state defines a small enterprise as having 100 or fewer workers.
“I understand how a lot onerous work and dedication it takes to function a small enterprise,” mentioned Hochul, who helped her mom begin a flower store in Buffalo. “This legislative bundle will guarantee state authorities can proceed to be a associate and an advocate for small companies.”
State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-Nice Neck), who sponsored each payments, agreed, saying after the almost two-year-old pandemic “we have to do as a lot as we will to make life simpler for them.”
