Bill Text: NY S08330 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a concurrent resolution of the legislature to permit the display in the state capitol of a portrait of any governor who does not complete any term for which they were elected; excludes death in office.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-14 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S08330 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08330-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8330

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 14, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the state law, in relation to portraits of former gover-
          nors

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

     1    Section  1.  The  state law is amended by adding a new section 72-a to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 72-a. Portraits of governors in the state capitol. No portrait of  a
     4  former  governor  who  does  not  complete  any term for which they were
     5  elected may be displayed in  the  state  capitol  building  without  the
     6  approval  of  the legislature by the passage of a concurrent resolution.
     7  This provision shall not apply to a governor who dies while in office.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14540-02-2