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                                  1766

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 14, 2015
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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:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 168-a of the executive law, as
amended by chapter 481 of the laws  of  2012,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  3.  The  following  days  shall be days of commemoration in each year:
January sixth, to be known as "Haym Salomon Day", JANUARY THIRTEENTH, TO
BE KNOWN AS "KOREAN-AMERICAN DAY", January twenty-seventh, to  be  known
as  "Holocaust  Remembrance  Day", February fourth, to be known as "Rosa
Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B.  Anthony  Day",
February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independence Day", Febru-
ary  twenty-eighth,  to  be  known  as  "Gulf  War Veterans' Day", March
fourth, to be known as "Pulaski  Day",  March  tenth,  to  be  known  as
"Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
ans'  Day",  April  ninth,  to  be known as "POW Recognition Day", April
twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day",  April  twenty-
eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May
to  be  known  as  "New  York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be
known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be  known
as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence
Day", June twelfth, to be known as  "Women  Veterans  Recognition  Day",
June  nineteenth,  to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-
fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", August  twenty-fourth,
to  be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be
known as "Women's Equality Day", September  eleventh,  to  be  known  as
"Battle  of  Plattsburgh  Day"  and  also to be known as "September 11th
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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and  also  to  be  known  as  "Uncle  Sam Day in the State of New York",
September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
State  POW/MIA  Recognition  Day"  except  if such date of commemoration
cannot be observed due to a religious holiday,  such  observances  shall
then  be  conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth  Saturday  of
September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
to  be  known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
"Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Theodore
Roosevelt  Day",  November  ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State  School-Related
Professionals  Recognition  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as
"Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International
Day  of  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December seventh, to be known as
"Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known  as  "Bastogne  Day"
and  that  day  of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
known as "Asian New Year".
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.