2021 New York Laws
COM - Economic Development Law
Article 10 - International Trade
223 - Reporting.

* § 223. Reporting. The department shall:
  1.  Monitor  the  performance of each export trade development project
and require periodic and annual reports from each such project  at  such
time and in such manner as prescribed by the commissioner;
  2. Evaluate the effectiveness of the export trade development projects
and  other  technical  assistance programs authorized under this article
and  shall  report,  on  or  before  October  first,  nineteen   hundred
eighty-eight and on or before October first of each year thereafter, the
results  of  such evaluation to the governor and the legislature. In the
case of export assistance programs  involving  the  direct  delivery  of
assistance  and services by the department, such report shall detail the
number of business firms served by the department, the number  of  trade
and  investment  inquiries  referred by the department to business firms
and other interested parties, the approximate dollar  amount  of  export
sales  and  investment  of  foreign capital in New York generated by the
activities of the department, and any other information the commissioner
deems pertinent to evaluating the effectiveness of such programs. In the
case of export trade development projects, such report shall  include  a
description of each project, its potential application to other areas of
the  state,  the success of each project in meeting its stated goals and
objectives, the economic impact of each project on the area served,  the
degree  of local and regional participation, financial and otherwise, in
each project, the coordination of each  project  with  state  and  local
export  promotion  programs and resources and such other information the
commissioner deems pertinent to  evaluating  the  effectiveness  of  the
export assistance development project program; and
  3.  (a)  Submit  to  the  director  of the division of the budget, the
chairperson of the senate finance committee and the chairperson  of  the
assembly ways and means committee an evaluation of program effectiveness
prepared  by an entity independent of the department. Such an evaluation
shall be submitted on or before September first, two thousand  five  and
on or before September first every four years thereafter.
  (b)  Between  evaluation  due dates, the department shall maintain the
necessary  records  and  data  required  to  satisfy   such   evaluation
requirements  and  to  satisfy  information  requests  received from the
director of the budget, the chairperson of the senate finance  committee
and  the  chairperson  of  the assembly ways and means committee between
such evaluation due dates.
  * NB  Amendments  effective  insofar  as  they  pertain  to  the  Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey upon passage of same as legislation
by New Jersey