Bill Text: NY S05258 | 2023-2024 | 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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S05258 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05258-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5258

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 28, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. SANDERS, ADDABBO, GALLIVAN, HELMING, HINCHEY, MANN-
          ION, STEC -- 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    § 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    §  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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