NFIB Calls on Legislature To Deliver Regulatory Relief for Small Businesses

Date: June 05, 2019

Small business group praises bill granting small biz reprieve for first-time regulatory infractions.

ALBANY, June 6, 2019 — NFIB, the state’s leading small business advocacy group, expressed its strong support today for A.7540a / S.5815a which would provide small businesses in New York with much needed and long awaited regulatory relief from overly punitive fines.

“Small businesses employ more than 4 million New Yorkers across every community in our state and continue to be the engine for New York’s economic growth,” said Greg Biryla, state director of NFIB in New York. “Unfortunately, far too often and for too long, Albany has viewed small businesses not as job creators and community assets, but as ATMs. New York’s high tax burden is well known, but just as stifling to the small business economy is the aggressive, regressive, and punitive enforcement of newly enacted and often poorly communicated mandates and regulations.”

Bills in both houses, A.7540a / S.5815a, sponsored by Assemblyman John McDonald (D-Cohoes) and Senator Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck) would waive fines for small businesses associated with first-time regulatory infractions and provide for a cure period to ensure future compliance. This legislation does not apply to regulatory infractions that are willful, threaten public safety, health, or the environment, are fraudulent, or violate civil rights protections.

“Assemblyman McDonald and Senator Kaplan have put forth common-sense, reform-minded legislation with bipartisan support that will make life easier for New York’s 2.1 million small businesses, while also ensuring new and changing state regulations are better communicated, understood, and compliance is less complex,” added Biryla. “Any legislator who claims to be a supporter of the small businesses in their district should be working double time to pass this critical legislation before this session’s clock runs out on June 19.”

Contact:

Greg Biryla, NFIB’s New York State Director
[email protected]

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