Bill Text: NY A01168 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes March 13 as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans Day".

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A01168 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01168-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1168

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  establishing  March
          thirteenth as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans Day"

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 168-a of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  237  of  the  laws  of 2020, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. The following days shall be days of  commemoration  in  each  year:
     5  January  sixth,  to  be known as "Haym Salomon Day", January twenty-sev-
     6  enth, to be known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be
     7  known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan  B.
     8  Anthony  Day",  February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independ-
     9  ence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as  "Gulf  War  Veterans'
    10  Day",  March  fourth,  to  be known as "Pulaski Day", March tenth, to be
    11  known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March thirteenth,  to  be  known  as  "K9
    12  Veterans  Day",  March  twenty-ninth,  to be known as "Vietnam Veterans'
    13  Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day",  April  twenty-
    14  seventh,  to  be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-eighth,
    15  to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May  to  be
    16  known  as  "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be known as
    17  "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Chil-
    18  dren's Day", June second, to be known  as  "Italian  Independence  Day",
    19  June  twelfth,  to  be  known  as "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June
    20  nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June  twenty-fifth,
    21  to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in July, to
    22  be  known  as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty-fourth, to be
    23  known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be  known
    24  as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
    25  Plattsburgh  Day"  and  also  to be known as "September 11th Remembrance

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03077-01-3

        A. 1168                             2

     1  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also  to
     2  be  known  as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York", September seven-
     3  teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
     4  third  Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recog-
     5  nition Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed  due
     6  to  a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on the
     7  second Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be  known
     8  as  "War  of  1812  Day",  the  fourth  Saturday  of September, known as
     9  "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in  September,  to  be  known  as
    10  "Gold  Star  Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallen-
    11  berg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day  in  the
    12  State  of  New  York",  October eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities
    13  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
    14  Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
    15  ber twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton  Day",  the  third
    16  Tuesday  in  November  to  be  known  as  "New York State School-Related
    17  Professionals Recognition Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as
    18  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",  December third, to be known as "International
    19  Day of Persons with Disabilities", December  seventh,  to  be  known  as
    20  "Pearl  Harbor  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
    21  and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new  year  to  be
    22  known as "Asian New Year".
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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