STATE OF NEW YORK
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5661--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN, BUTLER, FINCH, HAWLEY, RAIA, DiPIETRO,
PALUMBO, PALMESANO, GIGLIO, WALSH, ERRIGO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. LAWRENCE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
mental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental
Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the executive law, in relation
to enacting the "American made flag act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "American
2 made flag act".
3 § 2. Section 165 of the state finance law is amended by adding a new
4 subdivision 9 to read as follows:
5 9. Flags. Only flags, regardless of size, that are one hundred percent
6 manufactured in the United States, from articles, materials, or
7 supplies, one hundred percent of which are grown, produced or manufac-
8 tured in the United States, may be purchased for use by the state
9 government. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "flag" shall
10 have the same meaning as provided in subdivision one of section four
11 hundred one of the executive law.
12 § 3. Section 403 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
13 subdivision 22 to read as follows:
14 22. All flags purchased and displayed at any public building shall be
15 made in the United States from American materials, as provided in subdi-
16 vision nine of section one hundred sixty-five of the state finance law.
17 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
18 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08522-03-8
