Bill Text: NY A05661 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "American made flag act" to require that American flags purchased for use by the state government be made in the United States.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-16 - print number 5661a [A05661 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05661-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5661--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 14, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CURRAN, BUTLER, FINCH, HAWLEY, RAIA, DiPIETRO,
          PALUMBO, PALMESANO, GIGLIO, WALSH, ERRIGO -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.
          of  A.  LAWRENCE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
          mental Operations -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Governmental
          Operations  in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the executive law, in relation
          to enacting the "American made flag act"
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "American
     2  made flag act".
     3    § 2. Section 165 of the state finance law is amended by adding  a  new
     4  subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     5    9. Flags. Only flags, regardless of size, that are one hundred percent
     6  manufactured   in  the  United  States,  from  articles,  materials,  or
     7  supplies, one hundred percent of which are grown, produced  or  manufac-
     8  tured  in  the  United  States,  may  be  purchased for use by the state
     9  government. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "flag"  shall
    10  have  the  same  meaning  as provided in subdivision one of section four
    11  hundred one of the executive law.
    12    § 3. Section 403 of the executive law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    13  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
    14    22.  All flags purchased and displayed at any public building shall be
    15  made in the United States from American materials, as provided in subdi-
    16  vision nine of section one hundred sixty-five of the state finance law.
    17    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    18  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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