Senate Bill S7040

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Establishes July sixteenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Atomic and Nuclear 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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2019-S7040 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9680
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A3868
2023-2024: A2322

2019-S7040 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes July sixteenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Atomic and Nuclear Veterans Day".

2019-S7040 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7040 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7040
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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  establishing  July
   sixteenth  of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Atomic and
   Nuclear 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 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", JULY SIXTEENTH,
 TO BE KNOWN AS "ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR 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",
 
              

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