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                                  6561

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 6, 2009
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A. TOWNS, J. RIVERA, GUNTHER, GREENE, SCHROEDER,
  REILLY, ORTIZ, ZEBROWSKI, ALFANO, BACALLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
  of A. BRODSKY, BURLING, DIAZ, FARRELL, GLICK, GORDON, PEOPLES,  PERRY,
  PHEFFER,  SAYWARD, SPANO, SWEENEY, THIELE, WEISENBERG -- read once and
  referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  establishing  January
  fourth  of  each year as a day of commemoration known as "George Wash-
  ington Carver Day"

  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
separately amended by chapters 61, 90, 330 and 356 of the laws of  2008,
is amended to read as follows:
  3.  The  following  days  shall be days of commemoration in each year:
JANUARY FOURTH, TO BE KNOW AS "GEORGE WASHINGTON  CARVER  DAY",  January
sixth,  to  be known as "Haym Salomon 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 Independ-
ence Day", February 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 "Viet-
nam Veterans' 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", the first Sunday  in
June,  to  be  known  as  "Children's Day", June twelfth, to be known as
"Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "June-
teenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth,  to  be  known  as  "Korean  War
Veterans'  Day",  August  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Inde-
pendence Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh
Day" and also to be known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" 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  reli-
gious  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-Ameri-
can  Day", the last Sunday in September, to be known as "Gold Star Moth-
ers' 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  twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", Novem-
ber ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth,
to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in Novem-
ber to be known as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recogni-
tion Day", November thirtieth, to be known as  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",
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.