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                                  3826

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 18, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
  ty and Military Affairs

AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to establishing March
  thirteenth as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans 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
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  twenty-sev-
enth, 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  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 THIRTEENTH, TO BE KNOWN AS "K9
VETERANS DAY", March twenty-ninth, to be  known  as  "Vietnam  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", May seventeenth, to be  known  as
"Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Chil-
dren'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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01486-01-5
              

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Day",  September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also to
be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",  September  seven-
teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
third  Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recog-
nition 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 Wallen-
berg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day  in  the
State  of  New  York",  October eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities
History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
ber 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.