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Assembly Bill A8336

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to flags sold in the state of New York

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2017-A8336 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §396-hhh, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8651
2021-2022: A1711
2023-2024: A1131
2025-2026: A1135

2017-A8336 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all flags sold in New York state to be manufactured in the United States.

2017-A8336 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8336
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 8, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GJONAJ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring all
   flags sold in the state of New York be one  hundred  percent  manufac-
   tured in the United States

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 396-hhh to read as follows:
   § 396-HHH. SALE OF FLAGS. ONLY FLAGS  THAT  ARE  ONE  HUNDRED  PERCENT
 MANUFACTURED   IN  THE  UNITED  STATES,  FROM  ARTICLES,  MATERIALS,  OR
 SUPPLIES, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF WHICH ARE GROWN, PRODUCED  OR  MANUFAC-
 TURED  IN  THE UNITED STATES, MAY BE SOLD IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  FOR
 THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "FLAG" SHALL HAVE THE SAME  MEAN-
 ING  AS  PROVIDED  IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THE
 EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13027-01-7

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