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                                   8602
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 20, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing September
   twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Veteran
   Suicide Awareness and Remembrance 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", September thirteenth, to be known as "John  Barry
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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", SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SECOND, TO BE KNOWN AS "VETERAN SUICIDE
 AWARENESS  AND  REMEMBRANCE  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 third, to be known as  "Inter-
 national  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.