Section 213. Reporting

The department shall:
    1.  monitor  the  performance  of  each  development  center  and each
  entrepreneurship support center and require periodic and annual  reports
  from each development center and each entrepreneurship support center at
  such time and in such a manner as prescribed by the commissioner;
    2.  evaluate the entrepreneurial assistance programs established under
  this article and report, on or before October  first,  nineteen  hundred
  eighty-eight, and on or before each October first thereafter, and submit
  the results of such evaluation to the governor and the legislature. Such
  report shall discuss:
    (a)  in  the  case  of  development  centers,  the extent to which the
  program serves minorities, women and individuals with a disability;  the
  extent  to  which  the  program  is  coordinated  with  other assistance
  programs targeted to small  and  new  businesses;  the  ability  of  the
  program  to  leverage  other  sources  of  funding  and support; and the
  success  of  the  program  in  aiding  entrepreneurs  to  start  up  new
  businesses,  including  the  number  of new business start-ups resulting
  from the program; such report shall recommend changes  and  improvements
  in the program;
    (b)  in  the  case  of entrepreneurship support centers, the extent to
  which  the  program  serves  minorities,  women,  individuals   with   a
  disability  and  dislocated  workers; the extent to which the program is
  coordinated with other assistance programs targeted  to  small  and  new
  businesses;  the  ability  of  the  program to leverage other sources of
  funding and support; the success of  the  training  programs  in  aiding
  entrepreneurs  to  start  up new businesses, including the number of new
  business start-ups resulting  from  the  program,  and  the  quality  of
  supplemental  technical  assistance offered to graduates of the training
  programs; such report shall recommend changes and  improvements  in  the
  program;
    3.  (a)  submit  to  the  director  of the division of the budget, the
  chairperson of the senate finance committee and the chairperson  of  the
  assembly  ways and means committee an evaluation of the effectiveness of
  the programs established  under  this  article  prepared  by  an  entity
  independent  of  the  department.  Such evaluation shall be submitted by
  September first, two thousand five and by  September  first  every  four
  years thereafter.
    (b)  Between  evaluation  due dates, the department shall maintain the
  necessary  records  and  data  required  to  satisfy   such   evaluation
  requirements  and  to  satisfy  information  requests  received from the
  director of the budget, the chairperson of the senate finance  committee
  and  the  chairperson  of  the assembly ways and means committee between
  such evaluation due dates.