Helping Employers Attract Skilled Workers

• Secured massive investments in workforce development programs to help workers gain the skills employers need.

• Created a tax credit to help employers create or expand childcare slots for their employees.

• Reauthorized funding for sites to attract high-tech manufacturers in order to create jobs and grow our local economy.

Lowering Cost of Doing Business

• Advocating for legislation to cut the corporate franchise tax rate to zero for all manufacturers in New York.

• Passed a law to let small businesses avoid fines for a violation of a state agency’s rule or regulation, by giving the business an opportunity to cure the violation.

• Sponsored legislation to freeze unemployment insurance rates paid by businesses.

• Advocated for and helped pass the $800 million Pandemic Small Business Relief Grant Program and $250 million in tax credits for COVID-related expenses incurred by small businesses.

Improving Fairness for Small Businesses

• Co-sponsored and helped pass “right to repair” legislation requiring electronics manufactures to make diagnostic and repair information available to third party repairers, which provides new business for small, independently-owned repair shops.