S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6712
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
September 13, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
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.
