Bill Text: NY A08031 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates September 11th as a public holiday to be known as September 11th Memorial and Remembrance Day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A08031 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08031-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8031

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   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:

     1    Section  1.  Section 24 of the general construction law, as amended by
     2  chapter 249 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 24. Public holidays; half-holidays. The term public holiday includes
     4  the following days in each year: the first day of January, known as  New
     5  Year's  day;  the  third  Monday  of January, known as Dr. Martin Luther
     6  King, Jr. day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday;
     7  the third Monday in February, known as Washington's birthday;  the  last
     8  Monday  in  May, known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in June, known
     9  as Flag day; the nineteenth day of June, known as Juneteenth; the fourth
    10  day of July, known as Independence day; the first Monday  in  September,
    11  known  as  Labor  day; the eleventh day of September, known as September
    12  11th Memorial and Remembrance day; the second Monday in  October,  known
    13  as  Columbus  day; the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day;
    14  the fourth Thursday in November, known  as  Thanksgiving  day;  and  the
    15  twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day, and if any of such
    16  days  except  Flag  day is Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general
    17  election day, and each day appointed by  the  president  of  the  United
    18  States  or  by the governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiv-
    19  ing, general fasting and prayer, or other general religious observances.
    20  The term half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of  each
    21  Saturday which is not a public holiday.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10637-01-3