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A06583 Summary:

A06583 Actions:

A06583 Committee Votes:

Committee:GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS   Chair:McDonald      
DATE:03/19/2024AYE/NAY:13/0  Action: Favorable         
McDonald
Aye
Durso
Aye
Glick
Aye
Goodell
Aye
Kim
Aye
Beephan
Aye
Bichotte Hermel
Aye
Slater
Excused
Hyndman
Aye
Williams
Aye
Wallace
Aye
Raga
Aye
Simone
Aye
Shimsky
Aye

A06583 Floor Votes:

A06583 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6583--A
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     April 19, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. SHRESTHA, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, RAGA, MEEKS, ANDER-
          SON, CUNNINGHAM, HYNDMAN, KIM, RAJKUMAR, SHIMSKY, GALLAGHER,  MAMDANI,
          SIMON,  DICKENS,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  LEVENBERG, WEPRIN, SIMONE, ALVAREZ,
          SEPTIMO,  BEEPHAN,  THIELE,  GUNTHER,   AUBRY,   LUNSFORD,   MITAYNES,
          O'DONNELL,  REYES,  DARLING,  L. ROSENTHAL,  BORES,  ZINERMAN, TAYLOR,
          RIVERA,  JACOBSON,  RAMOS,  FAHY,  PEOPLES-STOKES,   KELLES,   WALKER,
          FORREST,  VANEL,  CLARK, EPSTEIN, LAVINE, LUCAS, SILLITTI -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --  recommit-
          ted  to  the  Committee  on Governmental Operations in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing  November
          twenty-sixth  of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Sojour-
          ner Truth 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  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-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans'
    10  Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day", March  eighth,  to  be
    11  known  as  "International  Women's  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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05369-02-4
        A. 6583--A                          2
 
     1  to be known as "New York State Teacher  Day",  May  seventeenth,  to  be
     2  known  as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known
     3  as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as  "Italian  Independence
     4  Day",  June  twelfth,  to  be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day",
     5  June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day",  June  twenty-
     6  fifth,  to  be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in
     7  July, to be known  as  "Abolition  Commemoration  Day",  August  twenty-
     8  fourth,  to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-
     9  sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to  be
    10  known  as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September
    11  11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John  Barry
    12  Day"  and  also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
    13  September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
    14  Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
    15  State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except  if  such  date  of  commemoration
    16  cannot  be  observed  due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
    17  then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the  last  Saturday
    18  in  September,  to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
    19  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
    20  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be  known  as
    21  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
    22  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
    23  bilities  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
    24  Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as  "Witness  for  Tolerance
    25  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    26  third  Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
    27  Professionals Recognition Day", November twenty-sixth, to  be  known  as
    28  "Sojourner  Truth  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as "Shirley
    29  Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International  Day  of
    30  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December  seventh,  to be known as "Pearl
    31  Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and  that
    32  day  of  the  Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be known as
    33  "Asian New Year".
    34    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.