STATE OF NEW YORK
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5587
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 18, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. MURPHY -- 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 July twen-
ty-fifth as "Medal of Honor 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 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 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", May seventeenth, to
16 be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be
17 known as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Inde-
18 pendence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition
19 Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June
20 twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", July twenty-
21 fifth, to be known as "Medal of Honor Day", August twenty-fourth, to be
22 known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be known
23 as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
24 Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September 11th Remembrance
25 Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also to
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York", September seven-
2 teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
3 third Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recog-
4 nition Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due
5 to a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on the
6 second Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be known
7 as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of September, known as
8 "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September, to be known as
9 "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallen-
10 berg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day in the
11 State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities
12 History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
13 Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
14 ber twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third
15 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.
