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                                   1847
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 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
 eleventh,  to  be  known  as  "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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.