STATE OF NEW YORK
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1847
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 16, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 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 237 of the laws of 2020, 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 "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as
13 "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", the
22 second Monday in July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day",
23 August twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day",
24 August twenty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September
25 eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also 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 "September 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be
2 known as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the
3 State of New York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich
4 Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be
5 known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of
6 commemoration cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such obser-
7 vances shall then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the
8 last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth
9 Saturday of September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday
10 in September, to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to
11 be known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as
12 "New Netherland Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be
13 known as "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known
14 as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for
15 Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton
16 Day", the third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State
17 School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be
18 known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "Inter-
19 national Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be
20 known as "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as
21 "Bastogne Day" and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as
22 new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
