Bill Text: NY A09755 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that for the calendar year two thousand twenty, the yellow pro-suffragist rose shall be the official flower of the state.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-7)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-10 - referred to governmental operations [A09755 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A09755-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9755 IN ASSEMBLY February 10, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT, DeSTEFANO, FERNANDEZ, GALEF, GLICK, LAVINE, LUPARDO, MAGNARELLI, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, RA, SIMON, SIMOTAS, SMULLEN, TAGUE, WALCZYK, WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the state law, in relation to making the yellow pro-suf- fragist rose the official flower of the state for the 2020 calendar year; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 75 of the state law, as added by chapter 507 of the 2 laws of 1955, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 75. State flower. The rose shall be the official flower of the state 4 in any color or combination of colors common to it, provided, that for 5 the calendar year two thousand twenty, the yellow pro-suffragist rose 6 shall be the official flower of the state. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 8 deemed repealed December 31, 2020. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14804-02-0
