More
than 575 leaders from New York State businesses, state government,
and local chambers of commerce attended The Business Council's
annual State Chamber Dinner May 13 in Albany.
New
York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was the keynote
speaker at the dinner, which The Council, as New York's statewide
chamber, conducts each year to honor the state's local and
regional chambers of commerce
The
new state budget is expected to create several new research
and technology programs.
One
budget bill (S.6259-B/A.9761-B) includes provisions that would:
Enact
Gen*NY*sis, the Senate Majority's initiative designed
to foster collaborative high-tech research and development
in biotechnology among academic, university, and industry
research labs
Lawmakers
have extended indefinitely the state's investment tax credit
(ITC) for the securities industry. This has been a top Business
Council priority.
New
York's powerful ITC has encouraged many businesses to invest
in New York State
Legislative
leaders' announced "framework" for agreement on a 2002-03
state budget preserves tax cuts that were passed in previous
years that are due to take effect in the current fiscal year.
Preserving
these tax cuts-which have an estimated value of $300 million-has
been a top Council priority since the budget debate began
in earnest in January
New
York City depends on electricity generated at the Indian Point
Energy Center. Closing it without simultaneously increasing
New York's generating capacity elsewhere would do "irreversible
harm to efforts to restore the city's economy," Business Council
President Daniel B
New York
City depends on electricity generated at the Indian Point Energy Center.
Closing it without simultaneously increasing New York's generating capacity
elsewhere would do "irreversible harm to efforts to restore the city's
economy," Business Council President Daniel B
The new state
budget is expected to create several new research and technology programs.
One budget
bill (S.6259-B/A.9761-B) includes provisions that would:
Enact
Gen*NY*sis, the Senate Majority's initiative designed to foster collaborative
high-tech research and development in biotechnology among academic,
university, and industry research labs
Thanking
The Business Council "for being such an effective advocate
for the interests of our business community," Governor Pataki
this week repeated his pledge that the state budget would
address a top Council priority: preserving already enacted
tax cuts scheduled to take effect this year
The
Business Council is urging lawmakers to extend, with key improvements,
the law that governs how the state considers proposals to
site new electricity-generating plants.
The
current law, Article X of the state Public Service Law, is
due to expire at the end of December
ALBANYNew
York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will speak at The Business Council's
annual State Chamber Dinner Monday, May 13 at the Empire State Plaza Convention
Center in Albany.
There will be
a press table at the dinner, which is scheduled to begin at approximately
6:45 p