Bill Text: NY S00883 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits symbols of hate on state owned property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-20 - SUBSTITUTED BY A962 [S00883 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00883-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           883

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  prohib-
          iting  symbols  of hate on state owned property at the state fair; and
          to amend a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the public  buildings
          law  and  the  agriculture and markets law relating to prohibiting the
          state of New York from selling   or displaying  symbols  of  hate,  as
          proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.8298-B  and A.10729-A, in
          relation to making the provisions of such act severable

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 51 of section 16 of the agriculture and markets
     2  law,  as  added  by  a  chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the public
     3  buildings law and the agriculture and markets law relating to  prohibit-
     4  ing the state of New York from selling or displaying symbols of hate, as
     5  proposed  in legislative bills numbers S.8298-B and A.10729-A,is amended
     6  to read as follows:
     7    51. [Take] And shall take any  measures  necessary  to  prohibit  [the
     8  sale,]  any person from attaching or affixing to state owned property on
     9  the grounds of the state fair [and any other fairs that receive  govern-
    10  ment funding, of] any symbols of hate, as defined in section one hundred
    11  forty-six  of the public buildings law,  or any similar image, or tangi-
    12  ble personal property, inscribed with such an image,  unless  the  image
    13  appears in a book, digital medium, or otherwise serves an educational or
    14  historical purpose.
    15    §  2.  Section 3 of a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the public
    16  buildings law and the agriculture and markets law relating to  prohibit-
    17  ing the state of New York from selling or displaying symbols of hate, as
    18  proposed  in legislative bills numbers S.8298-B and A.10729-A, is renum-
    19  bered section 4 and a new section 3 is added to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07176-01-1
        S. 883                              2

     1    § 3. If any provision of this act or application thereof to any person
     2  or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other
     3  provisions or applications of this act which can be given effect without
     4  the invalid provision, and to this end the provisions of  this  act  are
     5  declared to be severable.
     6    §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     7  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the  public  buildings
     8  law  and  the  agriculture  and  markets law relating to prohibiting the
     9  state of New York  from  selling  or  displaying  symbols  of  hate,  as
    10  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.8298-B and A.10729-A, takes
    11  effect.