New York A 7956: Prohibits the sale and display of symbols of hate by state funded entities or at state funded events

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A07956 Summary:

BILL NOA07956 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07523

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SPONSORJackson

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §19-b, St Fin L

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

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BILL NOA07956 

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04/16/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7956

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 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:

 1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
 2 19-b to read as follows:
 3 § 19-b. Symbols of hate. 1. No entity which receives any funds from
 4 the state shall sell or display any symbols of hate or any similar
 5 image, or tangible personal property, inscribed with such an image
 6 unless the image appears in a book, digital medium, museum, or otherwise
 7 serves an educational or historical purpose.
 8 2. No event which receives any funds from the state shall allow for
 9 the sale or display of any symbols of hate or any similar image, or
 10 tangible personal property, inscribed with such an image unless the
 11 image appears in a book, digital medium, museum, or otherwise serves an
 12 educational or historical purpose, at such event.
 13 3. For the purposes of this section, the term "symbols of hate" shall
 14 include, but not be limited to, symbols of white supremacy, neo-Nazi
 15 ideology or the Battle Flag of the Confederacy.
 16 § 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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