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                                   1989
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 18, 2019
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 Introduced  by  Sens. RANZENHOFER, AKSHAR, BOYLE, ORTT, RITCHIE, SAVINO,
   SERINO, 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 commemorating consti-
   tution 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"  AND  ALSO  TO  BE KNOWN AS "CONSTITUTION 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 Wallen-
 berg 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", Novem-
 ber 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.