Bill Text: NY S08895 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8895

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes the department of economic development to give a preference to any tourist promotion agency that is promoting the sport of stickball.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-25 - REFERRED TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION [S08895 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08895-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8895

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 25, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and Recreation

        AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to the author-
          ization of the department of economic development to give a preference
          to any tourist promotion agency that is promoting the sport of  stick-
          ball

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 161 of the economic  development
     2  law, as amended by chapter 86 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (a)  Encourage, facilitate and coordinate the planning and implementa-
     5  tion of programs to advertise, stimulate, promote and  increase  tourist
     6  travel,  resort,  vacation, culture and convention activities within the
     7  state and its regions with such flexibility as to bring about as  effec-
     8  tive and economical a tourist promotion plan as possible. The department
     9  shall  give a preference to any tourist promotion agency that is promot-
    10  ing the sport of cricket or the sport of stickball;
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01933-01-3