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                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 11, 2011
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Introduced  by  Sens.  LARKIN, ADAMS, ALESI, BONACIC, FARLEY, FUSCHILLO,
  SEWARD -- 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 designating February
  fourteenth, to be known as "Congenital Heart Defects  Awareness  Day",
  as a day 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
separately  amended by chapters 31, 72, 180 and 199 of the laws of 2010,
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 FOURTEENTH, TO BE KNOWN AS  "CONGEN-
ITAL  HEART  DEFECTS  AWARENESS DAY", February fifteenth, to be known as
"Susan B. Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to be known  as  "Lithuanian
Independence  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
"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  seven-
teenth,  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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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" except if such date of
commemoration cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such obser-
vances  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 "Disabilities 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 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.