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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           148
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 7, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. SAMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the designation  of  a
          "Holocaust Remembrance 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  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", 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", the first Sunday  in
    16  June,  to  be  known  as  "Children's Day", June twelfth, to be known as
    17  "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "June-
    18  teenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth,  to  be  known  as  "Korean  War
    19  Veterans'  Day",  August  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Inde-
    20  pendence Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh
    21  Day" and also to be known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September
    22  thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and  also  to  be  known  as

    23  "Uncle  Sam  Day in the State of New York", September seventeenth, to be
    24  known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third  Friday
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02057-01-9
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     1  in  September  to  be  known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day"
     2  except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due to  a  reli-
     3  gious  holiday,  such  observances shall then be conducted on the second
     4  Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be known as "War
     5  of  1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of September, known as "Native-Ameri-
     6  can Day", the last Sunday in September, to be known as "Gold Star  Moth-

     7  ers' Day", October fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October
     8  eleventh,  to be known as "New Netherland Day in the State of New York",
     9  October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day",  Novem-
    10  ber ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth,
    11  to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in Novem-
    12  ber to be known as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recogni-
    13  tion  Day",  November  thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley Chisholm Day",
    14  December seventh, to be known as "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth,
    15  to be known as "Bastogne Day" and that day of the Asian  lunar  calendar
    16  designated as new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
    17    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.