Bill Text: NY S06871 | 2019-2020 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S06871 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06871-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6871

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    November 25, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        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.
                                                                   LBD04115-01-9