Bill Text: NY S00785 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Designates the month of May as elder appreciation month.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-04 - referred to governmental operations [S00785 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00785-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Designates the month of May as elder appreciation month.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-04 - referred to governmental operations [S00785 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00785-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 785 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ 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 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 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 MAY, TO BE KNOWN AS "ELDER APPRECIATION MONTH". 12 S 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. LBD02259-01-5