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Assembly Bill A7956

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale and display of symbols of hate by state funded entities or at state funded events

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2025-A7956 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7523
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Add §19-b, St Fin L

2025-A7956 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale and display of symbols of hate by state funded entities or at state funded events.

2025-A7956 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7956
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation  to  prohibiting  the
   sale  and  display  of  symbols of hate by state funded entities or at
   state funded events

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  state finance law is amended by adding a new section
 19-b to read as follows:
   § 19-B. SYMBOLS OF HATE. 1. NO ENTITY WHICH RECEIVES  ANY  FUNDS  FROM
 THE  STATE  SHALL  SELL  OR  DISPLAY  ANY SYMBOLS OF HATE OR ANY SIMILAR
 IMAGE, OR TANGIBLE PERSONAL  PROPERTY,  INSCRIBED  WITH  SUCH  AN  IMAGE
 UNLESS THE IMAGE APPEARS IN A BOOK, DIGITAL MEDIUM, MUSEUM, OR OTHERWISE
 SERVES AN EDUCATIONAL OR HISTORICAL PURPOSE.
   2.  NO  EVENT  WHICH RECEIVES ANY FUNDS FROM THE STATE SHALL ALLOW FOR
 THE SALE OR DISPLAY OF ANY SYMBOLS OF HATE  OR  ANY  SIMILAR  IMAGE,  OR
 TANGIBLE  PERSONAL  PROPERTY,  INSCRIBED  WITH  SUCH AN IMAGE UNLESS THE
 IMAGE APPEARS IN A BOOK, DIGITAL MEDIUM, MUSEUM, OR OTHERWISE SERVES  AN
 EDUCATIONAL OR HISTORICAL PURPOSE, AT SUCH EVENT.
   3.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "SYMBOLS OF HATE" SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, SYMBOLS  OF  WHITE  SUPREMACY,  NEO-NAZI
 IDEOLOGY OR THE BATTLE FLAG OF THE CONFEDERACY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11597-01-5

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