Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jul 25, 2017 |
signed chap.104 |
Jul 13, 2017 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 19, 2017 |
returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.447 substituted for a7731 |
Jun 19, 2017 |
substituted by s5570 rules report cal.447 reported |
Jun 15, 2017 |
reported referred to rules |
May 11, 2017 |
referred to governmental operations |
Assembly Bill A7731
Signed By Governor2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
FAHY
Archive: Last Bill Status Via S5570 - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
2017-A7731 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S5570
- Law Section:
- Public Buildings Law
- Laws Affected:
- Add §5-c, Pub Bldg L
2017-A7731 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7731 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to directing the office of general services to install and maintain a commemorative plaque in the Capitol honoring Samuel J. Abbott THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds that at 2:42 a.m., on March 29, 1911, Fire Box 324 was pulled, notifying the City of Albany Fire Department of a fire at the State Capitol. Investi- gators would later determine that the fire originated in the third-floor Assembly Library, spreading quickly to the adjacent State Library, before engulfing the building's fourth and fifth floors. According to reports, the building, known at the time as "one of the most costly and celebrated buildings constructed in 19th-century America", had been burning without impediment for at least thirty minutes prior to the alarm. Firefighters, operating with horse-drawn pumpers, found a roar- ing inferno when they arrived on scene. The mammoth fire burned so forcefully that it twisted metal framing in the iconic skylight above the Great Western Staircase, sending the glass panels raining down on the stairs below; the stairway's carved sandstone filigree melted, and at the top of the "Million-Dollar Staircase", prized archaeological objects, including the State's world-famous Iroquois collection, were consumed by flames. When extinguished, the fire had decimated the entire collection of the State Library, with more than 800,000 books and manuscripts being lost. According to the March 29, 1911 edition of the ALBANY EVENING JOURNAL, at approximately 3 a.m., shortly after the fire alarm sounded at the Capitol, Mr. Samuel J. Abbott, a 78-year-old watchman in the building, "was seen by an orderly opening some windows". EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10738-02-7
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