Bill Text: NY S00783 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the month of September as firefighter, police officer and emergency medical technician appreciation month.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-16 - referred to governmental operations [S00783 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00783-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          783
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- 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  September  as  firefighter,  police  officer and emergency medical
         technician 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    S 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  SEPTEMBER,  TO  BE  KNOWN  AS "FIREFIGHTER, POLICE OFFICER AND EMERGENCY
   12  MEDICAL TECHNICIAN APPRECIATION MONTH".
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   14  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.
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