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                                   1341
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2021
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 Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, KAPLAN, LIU -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing November
   first of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Military Oppor-
   tunities 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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 S. 1341                             2
 
 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
 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 FIRST, TO BE KNOWN AS  "MILITARY  OPPORTUNITIES
 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.