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                                    340
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 5, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating September
   eleventh of each year as a day of commemoration  known  as  "Emergency
   Responders' Appreciation 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 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", May seventeenth,  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  Inde-
 pendence  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  Day"  AND  ALSO TO BE KNOWN AS "EMERGENCY RESPONDERS'
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 A. 340                              2
 
 APPRECIATION 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 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 eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
 bilities  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 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".
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.