S09290 Summary:

BILL NOS09290
 
SAME ASSAME AS A09960
 
SPONSORFERNANDEZ
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §168-a, Exec L
 
Designates February 21st as Mother Language Day, as a day of commemoration.
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S09290 Actions:

BILL NOS09290
 
05/09/2024REFERRED TO FINANCE
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S09290 Committee Votes:

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S09290 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S09290 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          9290
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       May 9, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 the designation of
          Mother Language Day as a day of commemoration
 
          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  amended by chapter 652 of the laws  of  2023,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  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-first, to be known as "Mother Language Day",
    10  February twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans'  Day",  March
    11  fourth,  to  be  known  as  "Pulaski  Day", March eighth, to be known as
    12  "International Women's Day", March tenth, to be known as "Harriet Tubman
    13  Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veterans' Day",  April
    14  ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April twenty-seventh, to be
    15  known  as  "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-eighth, to be known as
    16  "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May to be  known  as  "New
    17  York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be known as "Thurgood Mars-
    18  hall  Day",  the  first Sunday in June, to be known as "Children's Day",
    19  June second, to be known as "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to
    20  be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day",  June  nineteenth,  to  be
    21  known  as  "Juneteenth  Freedom  Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as
    22  "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in July, to  be  known  as
    23  "Abolition  Commemoration  Day",  August  twenty-fourth,  to be known as
    24  "Ukrainian Independence  Day",  August  twenty-sixth,  to  be  known  as
    25  "Women's  Equality  Day",  September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
    26  Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known  as  "September  11th  Remembrance
    27  Day",  September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also to
    28  be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",  September  seven-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15226-01-4

        S. 9290                             2
 
     1  teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
     2  third  Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recog-
     3  nition Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed  due
     4  to  a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on the
     5  second Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be  known
     6  as  "War  of  1812  Day",  the  fourth  Saturday  of September, known as
     7  "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in  September,  to  be  known  as
     8  "Gold  Star  Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallen-
     9  berg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day  in  the
    10  State  of  New  York",  October eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities
    11  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
    12  Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
    13  ber twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton  Day",  the  third
    14  Tuesday  in  November  to  be  known  as  "New York State School-Related
    15  Professionals Recognition Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as
    16  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",  December third, to be known as "International
    17  Day of Persons with Disabilities", December  seventh,  to  be  known  as
    18  "Pearl  Harbor  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
    19  and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new  year  to  be
    20  known as "Asian New Year".
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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