STATE OF NEW YORK
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1519--A
2003-2004 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 5, 2003
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Introduced by Sens. SAMPSON, ANDREWS, BALBONI, BRESLIN, BROWN, CONNOR,
DeFRANCISCO, DIAZ, DILAN, GONZALEZ, HASSELL-THOMPSON, HOFFMANN, JOHN-
SON, KRUEGER, KRUGER, KUHL, LACHMAN, LARKIN, LEIBELL, MAZIARZ, MEIER,
MENDEZ, MORAHAN, ONORATO, OPPENHEIMER, PARKER, PATERSON, SCHNEIDERMAN,
A. SMITH, M. SMITH, STACHOWSKI, STAVISKY, TRUNZO, VOLKER -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing June
nineteenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Juneteenth
Freedom Day", to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States
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 128 of the laws of 2001, 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", February sixteenth, to
6 be known as "Lithuanian Independence Day", March fourth, to be known as
7 "Pulaski Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April
8 twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Sunday
9 in June, to be known as "Children's Day", June twelfth, to be known as
10 "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "June-
11 teenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War
12 Veterans' Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Platts-
13 burgh Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and
14 also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York", September
15 seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial
16 Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New York State
17 POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be
18 observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall then be
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday in
2 September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
3 September, known as "Native-American Day", October fifth, to be known as
4 "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
5 Day in the State of New York", October twenty-seventh, to be known as
6 "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for
7 Tolerance Day", December seventh, to be known as "Pearl Harbor Day", and
8 December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day".
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the nineteenth of June following
10 the date on which it shall have become a law.
