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A842Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS5812

Give Small Businesses More Time

Official title

“Relates to the time needed by small businesses and local governments to comply with new regulations”

Sponsor Aravella SimotasAD-36+18 co-sponsors
Status
Signed by Governor
Impact
4/10
Low
Outcome
Signed into law

Bill progress

Signed into law

What's happening

This bill requires state agencies to assess and communicate the minimum time small businesses and local governments need to comply with new regulations and to actively solicit their participation in rulemaking.

Why it matters

  1. Requires state agencies to estimate and publicly communicate how much time small businesses and local governments will realistically need to comply with new rules. , considering practical, legal, and financial constraints—this aims to prevent rushed, costly, or disruptive transitions.

  2. Mandates that agencies detail the steps they’ll take to ensure affected small businesses and local governments are informed about new requirements well in advance. , helping these groups plan and adapt without incurring avoidable expenses or operational challenges.

  3. Strengthens the obligation for agencies to actively reach out and solicit participation from small businesses and local governments in the rulemaking process, beyond just posting notices online or in official registers. , increasing the likelihood that these stakeholders’ concerns and capacities are reflected in final regulations.

  4. Specifies that direct notification should include both individual businesses/governments and organizations representing their interests. , which could lead to broader, more effective communication and feedback channels during regulatory development.

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Give Small Businesses More Time

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Aravella Simotas

Assembly Member · Assembly District 36

History

  1. Approval memo.25
  2. Signed chap.577
  3. Delivered to governor
  4. Returned to assembly
  5. Passed senateVote 62–0
  6. 3rd reading cal.1400
  7. Substituted for S5812
  8. Referred to rules
  9. Delivered to senate
  10. Passed assembly
  11. Advanced to third reading cal.474
  12. Reported
Show 1 earlier action
  1. Referred to governmental operations

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S5812Senate

Give Small Biz More Time

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Anna Kaplan

Impact 4 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

842

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 11, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, ZEBROWSKI, GLICK, SCHIMMINGER, BLAKE, THIELE, DICKENS, D'URSO, ORTIZ, LAVINE, JAFFEE, COLTON, JEAN-PIERRE, CRESPO, FRIEND, McDONOUGH, BUCHWALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL, COOK, DiPIETRO, GALEF, HYNDMAN, NOLAN, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the state administrative procedure act, in relation to the time needed by small businesses and local governments to comply with new regulations

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

Section 1. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 2 of section 202-b of the state administrative procedure act are relettered paragraphs (f) and (g) and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows:

(e) an assessment of the minimum time that will be needed by small businesses and local governments to come into compliance with the rule, taking into consideration any applicable practical, legal and economic or fiscal constraints on such compliance, and a description of the measures that the agency intends to utilize to ensure that small businesses and local governments are informed of new or amended compliance requirements with sufficient lead time to achieve compliance without experiencing unnecessary costs or burdens;

§ 2. The opening paragraph and paragraph (b) of subdivision 6 of section 202-b of the state administrative procedure act, as amended by chapter 611 of the laws of 1996, are amended to read as follows:

When any rule is proposed for which a regulatory flexibility analysis is required, the agency shall assure that it has actively solicited the participation of small businesses and local governments [have been given an opportunity to participate] in the rule making through activities in addition to publication in the state register and posting on the agency's website, such [activities] as:

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

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(b) the direct notification of interested small businesses and local governments affected by the proposed rule or organizations representing the interests of such entities;

§ 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to all rules for which a notice of proposed rule making is published on or after such date.

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