NY State Senate Bill 2021-S4978

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 03, 2022	committed to rules
May 16, 2022	advanced to third reading
May 11, 2022	2nd report cal.
May 10, 2022	1st report cal.1214
Jan 05, 2022	referred to finance
Feb 22, 2021	referred to finance

Votes

- May 10, 2022 - Finance Committee Vote
  S4978
  
  22
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  1
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Finance Committee Vote: May 10, 2022
      
      aye (22)
      
      Bailey
      
      Borrello
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Liu
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Salazar
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      absent (1)
      
      Parker

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S5751
2019-2020: S4136
2023-2024: S4206

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes September fourth as "Mother Teresa Remembrance Day".

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S4978

SPONSOR: LANZA
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing September
fourth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Mother Teresa
Remembrance Day"

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To recognize and honor an extraordinary woman whose lifework, spiritual
leadership and guidance serves to enhance the quality of life for
others.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This bill would amend § 168-a (3) of the Executive Law to add a State
day of commemoration, September fourth of each year to be known as
"Mother Teresa Remembrance Day."

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Mother Teresa was truly a model of compassion and charity who served the
needs of the sick and the poorest of the poor. She was declared a Saint
on September 4, 2016 by Pope Francis, at a ceremony conducted at the
Vatican in Rome, Italy after the Church's finding that two miracles, for
which no scientific explanations could be found, could be attributed to
her.

Born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, now capital of the Republic of Mace-
donia, to Abanians, Nikolle and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa was
baptized Gonxha Agnes. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland and joined
the Sisters of Loreto at Loreto Abbey in Rathfamham, Ireland.

She left for India in 1929 and started her novitiate at a convent in
Darjeeeling, India; it was there she learned Bengali and began teaching
at St. Teresa's School. After taking her first religious vows in 1931,
she adopted the name of Sister Mary Teresa; it was while serving as a
teacher that she started focusing her attention on the poverty surround-
ing' her in the state. She formally started her missionary work with the
poor in 1948 replacing her traditional habit with the iconic blue-bord-
ered cotton sari Having founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman
Catholic, a religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over
4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries. They became a symbol of
hope to many including the aged, the destitute, the unemployed, the
diseased, the terminally ill. and those abandoned by their families. The
recipient of countless awards and accolades, in 1979 Mother Teresa
received a Nobel Peace Prize for her missionary work.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2020: S.4136 - Referred to Finance
2019: S.4136 -- Referred to Finance
2018: S.5751A - Third Reading Calendar

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately upon enactment.

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4978
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 22, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 establishing September
   fourth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Mother  Teresa
   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  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 FOURTH, TO BE
 KNOWN  AS  "MOTHER  TERESA  REMEMBERANCE DAY", September eleventh, to be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD06840-01-1

 S. 4978                             2
 
 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  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  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.

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

May 10, 2022 - Finance Committee Vote

Finance Committee Vote: May 10, 2022

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Andrew J. Lanza

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4978 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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