Bill Text: NY A04201 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates May 19th, to be known as "Malcolm X Day", as a day of commemoration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A04201 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04201-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4201
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 1, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. CAMARA, WRIGHT, SCARBOROUGH, STEVENSON, ROBERTS
         -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  COOK,  FARRELL  --  read  once  and
         referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
       AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating Malcolm X
         Day, May nineteenth, as a day of commemoration
         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 481 of the laws  of  2012,  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 twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
   12  nam  Veterans'  Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day",
   13  April twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta  Scott  King  Day",  April
   14  twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
   15  in  May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to
   16  be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", MAY  NINETEENTH,  TO  BE  KNOWN  AS
   17  "MALCOLM  X  DAY",  the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Children's
   18  Day", June second, to be  known  as  "Italian  Independence  Day",  June
   19  twelfth,  to  be  known  as "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nine-
   20  teenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June  twenty-fifth,  to
   21  be  known  as  "Korean  War  Veterans' Day", August twenty-fourth, to be
   22  known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be  known
   23  as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
   24  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.
                                                                  LBD07460-01-3
       A. 4201                             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    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.