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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4722
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
Parks and Recreation
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.
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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.
