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                                    704
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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  237  of  the  laws  of 2020, 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
 "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",  the
 second  Monday  in  July,  to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day",
 August twenty-fourth, to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",
 August  twenty-sixth,  to  be known as "Women's Equality Day", September
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05265-01-1

 A. 704                              2
 
 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
 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.