STATE OF NEW YORK
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860
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS, SIMON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to the author-
ization of the department of economic development to give a preference
to any tourist promotion agency that is promoting the sport of stick-
ball
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 161 of the economic development
2 law, as amended by chapter 86 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (a) Encourage, facilitate and coordinate the planning and implementa-
5 tion of programs to advertise, stimulate, promote and increase tourist
6 travel, resort, vacation, culture and convention activities within the
7 state and its regions with such flexibility as to bring about as effec-
8 tive and economical a tourist promotion plan as possible. The department
9 shall give a preference to any tourist promotion agency that is promot-
10 ing the sport of cricket or the sport of stickball;
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01933-01-3
