STATE OF NEW YORK
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1468
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- 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 authorizing
the department of economic development to give a preference to any
tourist promotion agency that is promoting the sport of rugby
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 rugby;
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.
LBD00786-01-3
