Bill Text: NY A10729 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 10729 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits the state of New York from selling or displaying symbols of hate or any similar image, or tangible personal property, inscribed with such an image unless the image appears in a book, digital medium, museum or serves an educational or historical purpose; defines term "symbol of hate" to be symbols of white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideology or the Battle Flag of the Confederacy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - APPROVAL MEMO.47 [A10729 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10729-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                        10729--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 1, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Bichotte) --
          read  once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public buildings law and the agriculture and markets
          law,  in relation to prohibiting the state of New York from selling or
          displaying symbols of hate

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
     2  146 to read as follows:
     3    §  146.  Prohibit  symbols of hate. 1. The state of New York shall not
     4  sell or display any symbols of hate or any similar  image,  or  tangible
     5  personal property, inscribed with such an image unless the image appears
     6  in a book, digital medium, museum, or otherwise serves an educational or
     7  historical purpose.
     8    2.  For the purposes of this section, the term "symbols of hate" shall
     9  include, but not be limited to, symbols  of  white  supremacy,  neo-Nazi
    10  ideology or the Battle Flag of the Confederacy.
    11    §  2.  Section  16  of  the  agriculture and markets law is amended by
    12  adding a new subdivision 51 to read as follows:
    13    51. Take any measures necessary to prohibit the sale, on  the  grounds
    14  of  the  state fair and any other fairs that receive government funding,
    15  of symbols of hate, as defined in section one hundred forty-six  of  the
    16  public  buildings law,  or any similar image, or tangible personal prop-
    17  erty, inscribed with such an image, unless the image appears in a  book,
    18  digital  medium,  or  otherwise  serves  an  educational  or  historical
    19  purpose.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect  immediately.  Effective  immediately,
    21  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    22  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    23  authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and completed on or before such
    24  effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16200-17-0