STATE OF NEW YORK
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9717
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating the fourth
Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration 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 481 of the laws of 2012, 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 tenth, to be
11 known as "Harriet Tubman Day", the fourth Thursday in March, to be known
12 as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known
13 as "Vietnam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition
14 Day", April twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day",
15 April twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first
16 Tuesday in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seven-
17 teenth, to be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in
18 June, to be known as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as
19 "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans
20 Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom
21 Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day",
22 August twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day",
23 August twenty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September
24 eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be
25 known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be
26 known as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the
27 State of New York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich
28 Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of
2 commemoration cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such obser-
3 vances shall then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the
4 last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth
5 Saturday of September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday
6 in September, to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to
7 be known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as
8 "New Netherland Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be
9 known as "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known
10 as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for
11 Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton
12 Day", the third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State
13 School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be
14 known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "Inter-
15 national Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be
16 known as "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as
17 "Bastogne Day" and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as
18 new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
