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                                  2055

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 11, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- 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 establishing the third
  Friday in September of each year as a day of  commemoration  known  as
  "PARK(ing) 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 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
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" AND

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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ALSO TO BE KNOWN AS "PARK(ING) 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", 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.