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Senator Anna M. Kaplan (D-North Hills), Chair of the New York State Senate Committee on Commerce, Economic Development, and Small Business, introduced legislation, S.6397, to speed up the process of establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program, a new, $800 million flexible recovery grant program being made available to small businesses who suffered pandemic related hardship over the past year. The funding to create the grant program was included in the recently enacted State budget, with a provision that Empire State Development, the State's economic development agency, would craft the parameters of the program and develop a means of facilitating applications and disbursement to needy small businesses.