Bill Text: NY S00228 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the month of May as elder appreciation month.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-04 - referred to governmental operations [S00228 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00228-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           228
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. GOLDEN, MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating the month
          of May as Elder Appreciation Month
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 168-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 168-b. Designation of months of commemoration. 1. A month of commem-
     4  oration is a calendar month so designated by this section or a  calendar
     5  month in any one year so designated by a proclamation of the governor or
     6  resolution of the senate and assembly jointly adopted.
     7    2. A month of commemoration shall not constitute a holiday or half-ho-
     8  liday but shall be a month set aside in recognition and special honor of
     9  a person, persons, group ideal or goal.
    10    3. The following month shall be a month of commemoration in each year:
    11  May, to be known as "Elder Appreciation Month".
    12    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    13  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03634-01-7