Bill Text: NY A09327 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the month of September as firefighter, police officer and emergency medical technician appreciation month.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-09 - referred to governmental operations [A09327 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09327-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9327
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 9, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating the month
         of September as firefighter,  police  officer  and  emergency  medical
         technician appreciation month
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  168-b
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 168-B. DESIGNATION OF MONTHS OF COMMEMORATION. 1. A MONTH OF COMMEM-
    4  ORATION  IS A CALENDAR MONTH SO DESIGNATED BY THIS SECTION OR A CALENDAR
    5  MONTH IN ANY ONE YEAR SO DESIGNATED BY A PROCLAMATION OF THE GOVERNOR OR
    6  RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY JOINTLY ADOPTED.
    7    2. A MONTH OF COMMEMORATION SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE A HOLIDAY OR HALF-HO-
    8  LIDAY BUT SHALL BE A MONTH SET ASIDE IN RECOGNITION AND SPECIAL HONOR OF
    9  A PERSON, PERSONS, GROUP IDEAL OR GOAL.
   10    3. THE FOLLOWING MONTH SHALL BE A MONTH OF COMMEMORATION IN EACH YEAR:
   11  SEPTEMBER, TO BE KNOWN AS "FIREFIGHTER,  POLICE  OFFICER  AND  EMERGENCY
   12  MEDICAL TECHNICIAN APPRECIATION MONTH".
   13    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   14  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03865-01-3