STATE OF NEW YORK
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2241
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 19, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. WEIK -- 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 March
twenty-first as "Down Syndrome Awareness 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", March twenty-first, to be known as "Down
12 Syndrome Awareness Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam
13 Veterans' 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", the second Monday in
22 July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty-
23 fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-
24 sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be
25 known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry
2 Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
3 September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
4 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New York
5 State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
6 cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
7 then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
8 in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
9 September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
10 to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
11 "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
12 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
13 bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
14 Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
15 Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
16 third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
17 Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be known as
18 "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International
19 Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as
20 "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
21 and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
22 known as "Asian New Year".
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
