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                                   1735
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to designating March
   twenty-first as "Down Syndrome Awareness 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-FIRST, TO BE KNOWN AS "DOWN
 SYNDROME AWARENESS 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  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  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 known as "September
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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.