Bill Text: NY A09036 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to purchasing restrictions and persons boycotting American allies.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - referred to governmental operations [A09036 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09036-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9036
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 19, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEINSTEIN  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law  and  the  retirement  and  social
          security law, in relation to purchasing restrictions
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  165-b to read as follows:
     3    §  165-b. Purchasing restrictions; persons boycotting certain American
     4  allies. 1. As used in this  section,  the  following  definitions  shall
     5  apply:
     6    (a) "Allied nation" shall mean:
     7    (i)  any  country that is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organ-
     8  ization;
     9    (ii) any country that is a signatory of the Southeast Asia  Treaty  of
    10  1954;
    11    (iii)  any  country,  other than Venezuela, that is a signatory of the
    12  Rio Treaty of 1947;
    13    (iv) Ireland;
    14    (v) Israel;
    15    (vi) Japan; and/or
    16    (vii) the Republic of Korea.
    17    (b) "Boycott" shall mean to engage in any activity, or to  promote  or
    18  encourage  others  to  engage  in  any activity, that will result in any
    19  person abstaining from commercial, social or political  relations,  with
    20  any allied nation, or companies based in an allied nation or in territo-
    21  ries  controlled  by  an  allied  nation,  with  the intent to penalize,
    22  inflict, or cause harm to, or otherwise promote or cast disrepute  upon,
    23  such allied nation, its people or its commercial products.
    24    (c)  "Person"  shall  mean  any  natural  person, corporation, limited
    25  liability company, unincorporated association or  any  other  nongovern-
    26  mental  entity,  organization,  or  group,  or  any  successor, subunit,
    27  parent, or subsidiary of the same.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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