STATE OF NEW YORK
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6325
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 2, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. TOWNS, GREENE, WALKER, ALFANO, J. RIVERA, REILLY,
ORTIZ, SCHROEDER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BACALLES, BRODSKY,
BURLING, DIAZ, FARRELL, GLICK, PEOPLES, PERRY, SPANO, SWEENEY, WEISEN-
BERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Oper-
ations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing May four-
teenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Henry Lincoln
Johnson 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 61, 90, 330 and 356 of the laws of 2008,
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", February fourth, to be
6 known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B.
7 Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independ-
8 ence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans'
9 Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day", March tenth, to be
10 known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
11 nam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day",
12 April twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April
13 twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
14 in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May fourteenth, to
15 be known as "Henry Lincoln Johnson Day", the first Sunday in June, to be
16 known as "Children's Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans
17 Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom
18 Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day",
19 August twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day",
20 September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also
21 to be known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 to be known as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day
2 in the State of New York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Fried-
3 rich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to
4 be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date
5 of commemoration cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such
6 observances shall then be conducted on the second Friday of September,
7 the last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the
8 fourth Saturday of September, known as "Native-American Day", the last
9 Sunday in September, to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October
10 fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be
11 known as "New Netherland Day in the State of New York", October twenty-
12 seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be
13 known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as
14 "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in November to be known
15 as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", Novem-
16 ber thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December seventh,
17 to be known as "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as
18 "Bastogne Day" and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as
19 new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
