Legislation introduced this month in the U.S. Senate could help designate a Hauppauge-based consortium as a “manufacturing community” eligible for federal financial and technical assistance while potentially addressing pandemic-related supply chain disruptions, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Monday.

The senator visited the headquarters of Ignite Long Island, a Hauppauge-based manufacturing consortium representing 3,000 businesses and 70,000 employees, to promote the “Made in America Manufacturing Communities Act of 2022.”