STATE OF NEW YORK
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5806
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 1, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. TOWNS, REILLY -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing January
fourth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "George Wash-
ington Carver Day"
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 fourth, to be known as "George Washington Carver Day", January
6 sixth, to be known as "Haym Salomon Day", January twenty-seventh, to be
7 known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be known as
8 "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B. Anthony
9 Day", February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independence Day",
10 February twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans' Day", March
11 fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day", March tenth, to be known as
12 "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
13 ans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April
14 twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-
15 eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May
16 to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be
17 known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known
18 as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence
19 Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day",
20 June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-
21 fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", August twenty-fourth,
22 to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be
23 known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as
24 "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September 11th
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day"
2 and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
3 September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
4 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New York
5 State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
6 cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
7 then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
8 in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
9 September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
10 to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
11 "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
12 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
13 bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
14 Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
15 Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
16 third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
17 Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be known as
18 "Shirley Chisholm Day", December seventh, to be known as "Pearl Harbor
19 Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and that day of
20 the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be known as "Asian
21 New Year".
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
