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                                 6095--A

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 25, 2009
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TITONE,  CUSICK,  FIELDS,  COLTON,  LUPARDO,
  HYER-SPENCER, TOBACCO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BING, BOYLAND,
  DINOWITZ, GABRYSZAK, GALEF, GOTTFRIED, MARKEY, McENENY,  ORTIZ,  PHEF-
  FER,  SCARBOROUGH,  SWEENEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on  Govern-
  mental  Operations  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 --
  committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
  recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to designating August
  20th as a day of commemoration to be known as "Staten Island 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 241 of the laws  of  2009,  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 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 TWENTIETH TO BE KNOWN  AS  "STATEN  ISLAND  DAY",

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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August  twenty-fourth,  to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian Independence 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" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day
in the State of New York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Fried-
rich 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  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", Novem-
ber 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 on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.