STATE OF NEW YORK
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10831
IN ASSEMBLY
July 17, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pretlow) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the designation of
Abolition Commemoration 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 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", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
12 nam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day",
13 April twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April
14 twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
15 in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to
16 be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be
17 known as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Inde-
18 pendence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition
19 Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June
20 twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second
21 Monday in July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August
22 twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
23 ty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to
24 be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem-
25 ber 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John
26 Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New
27 York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von
28 Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
2 cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
3 then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
4 in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
5 September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
6 to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
7 "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
8 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
9 bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
10 Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
11 Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
12 third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
13 Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be known as
14 "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International
15 Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as
16 "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
17 and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
18 known as "Asian New Year".
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
