NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A228
SPONSOR: Cruz TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to designating March
twenty-first as "Down Syndrome Awareness Day"
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 168-a of the executive law, as
amended by chapter 237 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
follows:
3. The following days shall be days of commemoration in each year:
January sixth, to be known as."Haym Salomon Day", January twenty-sev-
enth, to be known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be
known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B.
Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independ-
ence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans'
Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day", March tenth, to be
known as "Harriet TUbman Day", March twenty-first, to be known as "Down
1Syndrome_Awareness_pay", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam
iVeterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day",
April !twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April
twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
in May to be known as "New York State-Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to
be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first-Sunday in June, to be
known as "Children's Day", June second,. to be known as "Italian Inde-
pendence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition
Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June
twenty-fifth, to be known as. "Korean War Veterans' Day", t he second.
Monday in July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August
twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
ty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to
be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem-
ber 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John
Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New
York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von
Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New
York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
"Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
third Tuesday in November to be known•as "New York State School-Related
Professionals Recognition Day",'November thirtieth, to be known as
"Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International
Day of Persons with Disabilities", Decembe r seventh, to be known as"
Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne. Day"
ana that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
known as "Asian New Year".
JUSTIFICATION:
World Down Syndrome Day is typically celebrated on March 21 (3/21) to
signify the triplication (trisomy) of the 21 chromosomes which causes
Downs Syndrome. This important Day should be recognized in the State of
New York to further raise public awareness and for the advocacy for the
rights and well being of people with Downs syndrome.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
A.10598 of 2022; referred to governmental operations.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
