S 3429: Enacts the "American made flag act" to require that American flags purchased for use by the state government be made in the United States.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3429 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 27, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HELMING, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance 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. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "American made flag act". 3 § 2. Section 165 of the state finance law is amended by adding a new 4 subdivision 10 to read as follows: 5 10. Flags. Only flags, regardless of size, that are one hundred 6 percent 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 ten 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. LBD03318-01-5