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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 13, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to designating
   September eleventh as a public holiday
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section 24 of the general construction law, as amended by
 chapter 249 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   § 24. Public holidays; half-holidays. The term public holiday includes
 the following days in each year: the first day of January, known as  New
 Year's  day;  the  third  Monday  of January, known as Dr. Martin Luther
 King, Jr. day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday;
 the third Monday in February, known as Washington's birthday;  the  last
 Monday  in  May, known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in June, known
 as Flag day; the nineteenth day of June, known as Juneteenth; the fourth
 day of July, known as Independence day; the first Monday  in  September,
 known  as  Labor  day; THE ELEVENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, KNOWN AS SEPTEMBER
 11TH MEMORIAL AND REMEMBRANCE DAY; the second Monday in  October,  known
 as  Columbus  day; the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day;
 the fourth Thursday in November, known  as  Thanksgiving  day;  and  the
 twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day, and if any of such
 days  except  Flag  day is Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general
 election day, and each day appointed by  the  president  of  the  United
 States  or  by the governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiv-
 ing, general fasting and prayer, or other general religious observances.
 The term half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of  each
 Saturday which is not a public holiday.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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