S 44: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of the office of general services to commission the flag design committee of the North American Vexillological Association to design a new state flag.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 44 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the state law, in relation to redesigning the state flag The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 70 of the state law, as amended by section 1 of 2 part U of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 70. Description of the arms of the state [and the state flag]. The 4 device of arms of this state is hereby declared to be correctly 5 described as follows: 6 Charge. Azure, in a landscape, the sun in fess, rising in splendor or, 7 behind a range of three mountains, the middle one the highest; in base a 8 ship and sloop under sail, passing and about to meet on a river, 9 bordered below by a grassy shore fringed with shrubs, all proper. 10 Crest. On a wreath azure and or, an American eagle proper, rising to 11 the dexter from a two-thirds of a globe terrestrial, showing the north 12 Atlantic ocean with outlines of its shores. 13 Supporters. On a quasi compartment formed by the extension of the 14 scroll. 15 Dexter. The figure of Liberty proper, her hair disheveled and deco- 16 rated with pearls, vested azure, sandaled gules, about the waist a cinc- 17 ture or, fringed gules, a mantle of the last depending from the shoul- 18 ders behind to the feet, in the dexter hand a staff ensigned with a 19 Phrygian cap or, the sinister arm embowed, the hand supporting the 20 shield at the dexter chief point, a royal crown by her sinister foot 21 dejected. 22 Sinister. The figure of Justice proper, her hair disheveled and deco- 23 rated with pearls, vested or, about the waist a cincture azure, fringed 24 gules, sandaled and mantled as Liberty, bound about the eyes with a EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00119-01-5 
 S. 44 2 1 fillet proper, in the dexter hand a straight sword hilted or, erect, 2 resting on the sinister chief point of the shield, the sinister arm 3 embowed, holding before her her scales proper. 4 Motto. On a scroll below the shield argent, in sable, [two lines. On 5 line one,] Excelsior [and on line two, E pluribus unum]. 6 State flag. The state flag is hereby declared to be blue, charged with 7 the arms of the state in the colors as described in the blazon of this 8 section. 9 § 2. The commissioner of the office of general services is authorized 10 and directed to commission the flag design committee of the North Ameri- 11 can Vexillological Association to design a new state flag. 12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 13 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.