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                                   9163
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2024
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 Introduced by M. of A. LEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing January
   thirtieth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Fred  Kore-
   matsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution"
 
   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", JANUARY THIRTIETH,  TO
 BE  KNOWN  AS  "FRED  KOREMATSU DAY OF CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE CONSTITU-
 TION", 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 Independence 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  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 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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.