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NY A09423
Bill
Status
12/19/2025
Primary Sponsor
Alex Bores
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AI Summary
- Repeals outdated references to defunct veterans organizations including the Grand Army of the Republic and United Spanish War Veterans from town law provisions regarding holiday observances and appropriations for patriotic organizations
- Removes all statutory references to telegraph corporations and telegraph services throughout the public service law and transportation corporations law, updating telecommunications regulations to apply only to telephone corporations
- Eliminates obsolete Education Law provisions including Section 3022 regarding subversive organizations lists maintained by the Board of Regents, and removes gender-specific pronouns throughout multiple statutes by replacing "he/she," "husband or wife," and "his/her" with gender-neutral terms
- Repeals outdated requirements including fireproof booth construction specifications for movie projectors in the arts and cultural affairs law, county tuberculosis hospital provisions in the county law, and references to obsolete technologies like kinescopes and lantern slides
- Updates various procedural requirements by removing anachronistic provisions such as requirements to draw maps "with pen and India ink upon tracing cloth," references to microfilm correction procedures, outdated salary caps for judicial clerks, and replacing "freeholder or householder" with "resident" for surety qualifications
Legislative Description
Removes and updates outdated terminology and provisions of law; makes technical corrections thereto; removes certain provisions relating to subversive persons in public schools, registration of noncitizens during times of war, penalties for bringing a needy person into the state, references to the Grand Army of the Republic and United Spanish War Veterans, telegraphs and telegraph companies, fireproof booths for moving pictures, county tuberculosis hospitals, kinescopes and lantern slides, the Hudson River Railroad Company, freeholders or householders, microfilm deed indexes, drawing of certain maps with pen and India ink upon tracing cloth, sabbath breaking, and certain other outdated terms and provisions of law.
Last Action
referred to governmental operations
1/7/2026