STATE OF NEW YORK
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1930
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- 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 designation of days 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 thirteenth, to
6 be known as "Korean-American Day", January twenty-seventh, to be known
7 as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be known as "Rosa
8 Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B. Anthony Day",
9 February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independence Day", Febru-
10 ary twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans' Day", March
11 fourth, to be known as "Pulaski 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-
21 fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", August twenty-fourth,
22 to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be
23 known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as
24 "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September 11th
25 Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day"
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
2 September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
3 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New York
4 State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
5 cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
6 then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
7 in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
8 September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
9 to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
10 "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
11 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
12 bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
13 Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
14 Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
15 third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
16 Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be known as
17 "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International
18 Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as
19 "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
20 and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
21 known as "Asian New Year".
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
