Directs that the flag be flown at half-staff to commemorate the death of members of the United States armed forces who were residents of New York and were killed in action.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7043
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 31, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 authorizing the flag
to be flown at half-staff to commemorate the death of certain members
of the armed forces
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 21 of section 403 of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 666 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 21. The flag shall be flown at full staff at all times except it shall
5 be flown at half-staff on the eleventh of September, known as September
6 11th Remembrance Day, the seventh day of December, known as Pearl Harbor
7 Day, and to commemorate the death of a personage of national or state
8 standing or of a local [serviceman] service member, official or public
9 servant who, in the opinion of the local agency concerned, contributed
10 to the community. It may also be flown at half-staff during special
11 periods of mourning designated by the President of the United States or
12 the Governor of this state. The Governor and all local agencies of this
13 state shall order flags to be flown at half-staff to commemorate the
14 death of any member of the armed forces of the United States who was a
15 resident of the state and was killed in the course of action.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11325-01-5
