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                                   9717
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2020
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 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating the fourth
   Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration 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", THE FOURTH THURSDAY IN MARCH, TO BE KNOWN
 AS "TUSKEGEE AIRMEN COMMEMORATION 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
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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.