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GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL
Staff Contact: Ken Pokalsky
Looking Ahead to 2010
Testimonies & Reports
- Testimony to
Joint Legislative Hearing/Energy, Commerce/Economic Development & Corporations Committees
New York State’s Low-Cost Power Programs, September 23, 2009
- Testimony to New York Commission on Public Integrity Staff 2010 Legislative Proposals, September 8, 2009
- 2009 End of Session Legislative Wrap-up
- State of the State Business Council Summary (January 9, 2009)
- Summary of the FY 2009 Budget
Prepared by the staff of The Business Council
April 11, 2008
Business Council calls on Congress to consider costs of health care reform
- Letter to NY Congressional Delegation (July 28, 2009)
Fiscal 2011 Executive Budget - Business Council's Overview
2009-10 NYS Budget
End of session job creation message to the legislature, 6/19/09
Business Council Action Agenda 2009
Council Budget News
- Business Council strongly supports Gov. Paterson’s call to balance the state budget (Oct. 15, 2009)
- Business Council applauds Governor’s spending cuts; calls for more (Oct. 8, 2009)
- NY'S BUDGET MESS: CAP SPENDING FIRST
New York Post Op-Ed by Kenneth Adams, president & CEO of The Business Council of New York State - Business Council says proposed tax increases would damage economy
- Business Council opposes new requirements on existing Empire Zone companies
Senate Leadership and Committee Chair Assignments as of 1/6/09
Government
Affairs Council (GAC) Update
Archives / GAC Memos
News
- Business Council launches Fix New York e-advocacy Web site (Oct. 8, 2009)
- Business Council calls for long-term economic development power program (Sept. 23, 2009)
- Business Council says unemployment and state revenue numbers show need to cut state spending (Sept. 17, 2009)
- The Business Council's Public Policy Institute and Empire Center for New York State Policy release benchmark study on tax rates for counties, towns, cities and villages (April 8, 2009)
- Grim employment numbers underscore need for discipline in New York (August 7,2009)
- Business Council says enough is enough stop the MTA payroll tax (April 1, 2009)
- Senate Committee Assignments for 2009
- Assembly Committee Assignments for 2009
- State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli Announces Open Book New York: Where do your tax dollars go?
Public Retiree Health Insurance Protection
- Statement by Kenneth Adams, president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State on the council’s opposition to legislation on public retiree health benefits (S.6457-A/A.9393-A)
- Legislative memo: S.6457-A (Farley)/ A.9393-A (Abbate), Oppose, Task Force on Public Retiree Health Insurance Protection
Other
Business Council Legislative Documents
- Legislative Programs
- Legislative Session Wrap Ups
- Governor's Budget (Proposed and Final)
- Legislative Memos
- Issues In Brief