Bill Text: NY A01131 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires any American flag and New York state flag sold in New York state to be manufactured in the United States.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A01131 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01131-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1131 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring all flags sold in the state of New York be one hundred percent manufac- tured in the United States The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 396-hhh to read as follows: 3 § 396-hhh. Sale of flags. Only flags that are one hundred percent 4 manufactured in the United States, from articles, materials, or 5 supplies, one hundred percent of which are grown, produced or manufac- 6 tured in the United States, may be sold in the state of New York. For 7 the purposes of this section, the term "flag" shall mean the flag of the 8 United States of America and the flag of the state of New York. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02455-01-3
