STATE OF NEW YORK
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1480--A
Cal. No. 262
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. HINCHEY, BROUK -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and
second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
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
16 to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be
17 known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known
18 as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence
19 Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day",
20 June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in
2 July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty-
3 fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-
4 sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be
5 known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September
6 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry
7 Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
8 September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
9 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New York
10 State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
11 cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
12 then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
13 in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
14 September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
15 to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
16 "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
17 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
18 bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
19 Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
20 Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
21 third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
22 Professionals Recognition Day", November twenty-sixth, to be known as
23 "Sojourner Truth Day", November thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley
24 Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International Day of
25 Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as "Pearl
26 Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and that
27 day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be known as
28 "Asian New Year".
29 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
