Senate Bill S216

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes March 13 as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans Day"

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S216 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5019
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S6163, A8402
2015-2016: S3826, A2232
2019-2020: A1352
2021-2022: A2496
2023-2024: A1168

2017-S216 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes March 13 as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans Day".

2017-S216 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S216 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    216
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. MARCHIONE, AKSHAR, CROCI, DeFRANCISCO, FUNKE, GALLI-
   VAN,  GOLDEN,  LARKIN,  RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Veter-
   ans, Homeland Security 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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