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                                   9052
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2022
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 Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing November
   twenty-sixth of each year as a day of commemoration known as  "Sojour-
   ner Truth 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", 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", the second
 Monday in July, to be known as  "Abolition  Commemoration  Day",  August
 twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
 ty-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 "Septem-
 ber 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 A. 9052                             2
 
 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 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 Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
 bilities 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 TWENTY-SIXTH, TO BE KNOWN AS
 "SOJOURNER TRUTH 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.