The Council will host a series of briefings across the state to
review and assess human-resources related legislation introduced
or passed this year, and to discuss how November’s elections
might affect human-resources next year.
The eight August meetings will replace the full-day meetings usually
held during the summer and fall, said Tom Minnick, manager of the
Council’s Center for Human Resources
ALBANY—Proposed changes to the state Taylor Law would drive taxes higher and harm vital public services, the Business Council of New York State said in urging Governor Pataki to veto a number of bills the Legislature approved this session.
"Some of these bills would impose new costs directly," Business Council President/CEO Daniel B
Honorable George E. Pataki
Governor
State of New York
The Capitol
Albany, New York 12224
Dear Governor Pataki:
RE: This year’s flood of anti-taxpayer legislation
As you have said consistently, high taxes hurt New York. They drive jobs away – a key reason our job growth continues to lag the nation’s
New York's liability climate is among the worst in the nation,
and could be damaging the state's already fragile economy, a new
report by the Pacific Research Institute has found.
The study, the U.S.
Tort Liability Index: 2006 Report, ranked states
on 39 variables in five groups including monetary tort losses, threats,
monetary caps, and substantive-law rules
ALBANYNew York's overall state-and-local tax burden remains
the heaviest in the country, and the state ranks at or near the top
in property, income and sales taxes, a new data compilation by the
Public Policy Institute shows.
The Institute, the research affiliate of The Business Council of New
York State, updated its Just The Facts statistics on state
and local taxes in New York and elsewhere
New York’s final state budget increased projected spending
10 percent over last year’s budget, three times the rate of
inflation, according to a new analysis by state Comptroller Alan
G. Hevesi.
The actions taking by lawmakers at the end of the session pushed
spending to about $114
Three pieces of health legislation closely watched by The Business
Council were passed by both houses in the last days of session and
could have an enormous impact on health care in New York if passed
into law, said the Council’s director of government affairs,
Elliott Shaw
The Business Council is asking members for input on revised amendments
to state regulations governing the state's Superfund and brownfield
redevelopment programs that have been published by the state Department
of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
DEC has scheduled a series of meetings and hearings to solicit
public comments on the changes
The Business Council is urging the Governor to sign into a law
a bill that would change the mechanism by which employers that obtain
workers' compensation coverage through group self-insured trusts
pay mandatory surcharges on workers' comp premiums.
Until 1999, most employers paid assessments based on indemnity
losses, said Ed Reinfurt, vice president of The Business Council
The Business Council is urging Governor Pataki to sign into law
a new bill extending the state's Power for Jobs and Economic Development
Power programs, and is urging the many Council members that participate
in the programs to give the Governor the same encouragement