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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6068
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 4, 2012
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing  December
          third  of  each year as a day of commemoration known as "International
          Day of Persons with Disabilities"
 

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 168-a of the executive law, as
     2  separately amended by chapters 31, 72, 180 and 199 of the laws of  2010,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    3.  The  following  days  shall be days of commemoration in each year:
     5  January sixth, to be known as "Haym Salomon  Day",  January  twenty-sev-
     6  enth, to be known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be
     7  known  as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B.
     8  Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to be known as  "Lithuanian  Independ-
     9  ence  Day",  February  twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans'
    10  Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day",  March  tenth,  to  be
    11  known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-

    12  nam  Veterans'  Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day",
    13  April twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta  Scott  King  Day",  April
    14  twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
    15  in  May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to
    16  be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday  in  June,  to  be
    17  known  as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Inde-
    18  pendence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans  Recognition
    19  Day",  June  nineteenth,  to  be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June
    20  twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", August  twenty-
    21  fourth,  to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-
    22  sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to  be
    23  known  as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September

    24  11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John  Barry
    25  Day"  and  also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
    26  September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13825-01-2
        S. 6068                             2
 
     1  Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
     2  State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except  if  such  date  of  commemoration
     3  cannot  be  observed  due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
     4  then  be  conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
     5  in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth  Saturday  of

     6  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
     7  to  be  known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
     8  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
     9  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
    10  bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Theodore
    11  Roosevelt  Day",  November  ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
    12  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    13  third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State  School-Related
    14  Professionals  Recognition  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as
    15  "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International
    16  Day  of  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December seventh, to be known as
    17  "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known  as  "Bastogne  Day"

    18  and  that  day  of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
    19  known as "Asian New Year".
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.