Bill Text: NY S08298 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 15-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - APPROVAL MEMO.47 [S08298 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08298-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8298--B

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. BIAGGI, CARLUCCI, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, JACK-
          SON, KRUEGER, LIU, METZGER, RIVERA, SEPULVEDA, SKOUFIS --  read  twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on  Investigations  and Government Operations -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee  -- 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.
                                                                   LBD16200-18-0