S 1865 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Enacts the lift our communities advertise locally (LOCAL) program

Summary

Enacts the lift our communities advertise locally (LOCAL) program which provides a tax credit on advertising for locally owned minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises, certified service-disabled veteran-owned business enterprises or a small business.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Jan 14, 2025 Last action Apr 29, 2026

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What changed between versions

S1865 → S1865A · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to include two new sponsors and updated the bill number to S.1865-A. The most significant substantive change is the expansion of the 'Excluded Organization' definition to prevent large corporations and their subsidiaries from receiving public funds, specifically adding exclusions for publicly-traded companies with over $1 billion in revenue and their subsidiaries.

Scope change

The bill's scope was expanded to explicitly exclude large publicly-traded companies and their subsidiaries from eligibility for the tax credit program.

ELIGIBILITY

Added new exclusions for 'Excluded Organizations' to include publicly-traded companies with at least $1 billion in revenue over the last four quarters and organizations that are subsidiaries or at least 5% owned by these large companies.

SCOPE

Added two new sponsors to the bill: Senators Ashby, Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Cooney, Hoylman-Sigal, Murray, and Rhoads.

TECHNICAL

Updated the bill identifier from S.1865 to S.1865-A and changed the article number from 28 to 29 to reflect the amendment.

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Amendments

Apr 29, 2026

Committee

REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

upper

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

upper

May 28, 2025

Upper · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 1865A

upper

May 28, 2025

Upper · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

upper

Jan 14, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

upper

1 primary · 8 co-sponsors