Bill Text: NY S08722 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the empire state plaza art commission to provide recommendations to the governor on renaming the agency buildings located at the empire state plaza; establishes considerations to include places, persons and matters of significance to the state that reflect state values; requires the governor to choose the new agency building names within 60 days after the commission's recommendation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [S08722 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08722-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8722--A
            Cal. No. 743

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 4, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and  Recreation  --  reported  favorably  from  said  committee,
          ordered  to  first  and  second  report,  ordered  to a third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of
          third reading

        AN ACT to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to renam-
          ing  agency  building  one, agency building two, agency building three
          and agency building four, located at the empire state plaza

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  11  of section 4.07 of the arts and cultural
     2  affairs law, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 56 of  the  laws
     3  of  2008,  is  amended  and  a  new  subdivision  12 is added to read as
     4  follows:
     5    11. To establish a program, in consultation with the  commissioner  of
     6  general  services,  for  the  promotion  of  the  empire state plaza art
     7  collection to the public through such means as determined by the commis-
     8  sion to be appropriate, including, but not limited to, educational semi-
     9  nars, remote exhibitions, special events and the sale  of  souvenirs  or
    10  mementos  related to the collection. All receipts of the commission from
    11  promotional efforts shall  be  deposited  in  a  state  fiduciary  fund,
    12  expenditures  from which shall be limited to the purposes of the commis-
    13  sion set forth in this article[.];
    14    12. (a) In collaboration with the commissioner of the office of gener-
    15  al services, the commission shall make a recommendation to the  governor
    16  on the naming of agency building one, agency building two, agency build-
    17  ing  three  and agency building four, located at the empire state plaza.
    18  The commission shall consider a variety of names or categories of  names
    19  that reflect state values, including but not limited to places, persons,
    20  and matters of significance to the state.
    21    (b) The commission shall within one year of the effective date of this
    22  subdivision, make a recommendation to the governor.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13706-02-4
        S. 8722--A                          2

     1    (c)  The governor, in accordance with the commission's recommendation,
     2  shall determine the names of agency building one, agency  building  two,
     3  agency  building three and agency building four, within sixty days after
     4  the commission submits their recommendation.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     6  it  shall  have  become  a  law. Effective immediately, the empire state
     7  plaza art commission is authorized to promulgate,  amend  and/or  repeal
     8  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on
     9  its effective date.