Bill Text: NY S04007 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-04-30 - referred to governmental operations [S04007 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S04007-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4007--A Cal. No. 789 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 1, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. FUNKE, AKSHAR, CARLUCCI, GALLIVAN, GOLDEN, HANNON, HELMING, LARKIN, MARCHIONE, MURPHY, RITCHIE, ROBACH, SAVINO, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading 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. LBD08522-02-8