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A 981Directs the department of economic development to study methods for keeping small retail businesses within the state and creates pilot program; appropriation

Congress · introduced 2025-01-07

Directs the department of economic development to study methods for keeping small retail businesses within the state and create a pilot program to train and counsel small business owners and potential small business owners; appropriates $210,000 therefor.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · assembly REFERRED TO SMALL BUSINESS
  2. · assembly HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN SMALL BUSINESS
  3. · assembly REFERRED TO SMALL BUSINESS

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Inbound (10)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-01-07David McDonoughcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-07John Lemondescosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-07Brian Manktelowcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-07Joe DeStefanocosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-07Karl Brabeneccosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-07Brian D. Millercosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-07Scott H. Bendettcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-07Kenneth Blankenbushcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-07Samuel Pirozzolocosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-07Joe Angelinosponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Joe Angelino (, state_lower NY-121)sponsor05
2Brian D. Miller (, state_lower NY-122)cosponsor01
3Brian Manktelow (, state_lower NY-130)cosponsor01
4David McDonough (, state_lower NY-14)cosponsor01
5Joe DeStefano (, state_lower NY-3)cosponsor01
6John Lemondes (, state_lower NY-126)cosponsor01
7Karl Brabenec (, state_lower NY-98)cosponsor01
8Kenneth Blankenbush (, state_lower NY-117)cosponsor01
9Samuel Pirozzolo (, state_lower NY-63)cosponsor01
10Scott H. Bendett (, state_lower NY-107)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-01-07 · cosponsored by David McDonough (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-01-07 · cosponsored by John Lemondes (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-01-07 · cosponsored by Karl Brabenec (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2025-01-07 · cosponsored by Scott H. Bendett (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  5. 2025-01-07 · cosponsored by Brian Manktelow (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  6. 2025-01-07 · cosponsored by Samuel Pirozzolo (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  7. 2025-01-07 · cosponsored by Joe DeStefano (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  8. 2025-01-07 · sponsored by Joe Angelino (sponsor) · sponsorship
  9. 2025-01-07 · cosponsored by Kenneth Blankenbush (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  10. 2025-01-07 · cosponsored by Brian D. Miller (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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