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                                  6583--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SHRESTHA, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, RAGA, MEEKS, ANDER-
   SON, CUNNINGHAM, HYNDMAN, KIM, RAJKUMAR, SHIMSKY, GALLAGHER,  MAMDANI,
   SIMON,  DICKENS,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  LEVENBERG, WEPRIN, SIMONE, ALVAREZ,
   SEPTIMO,  BEEPHAN,  THIELE,  GUNTHER,   AUBRY,   LUNSFORD,   MITAYNES,
   O'DONNELL,  REYES,  DARLING,  L. ROSENTHAL,  BORES,  ZINERMAN, TAYLOR,
   RIVERA,  JACOBSON,  RAMOS,  FAHY,  PEOPLES-STOKES,   KELLES,   WALKER,
   FORREST,  VANEL,  CLARK, EPSTEIN, LAVINE, LUCAS, SILLITTI -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --  recommit-
   ted  to  the  Committee  on Governmental Operations in accordance with
   Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 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 652 of the laws  of  2023,  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  eighth,  to  be
 known  as  "International  Women's  Day",  March  tenth,  to be known as
 "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
 ans' 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

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05369-02-4
              

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 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
 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 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.