Bill Text: NY A08462 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes June second as Italian Independence Day, a day of commemoration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-15 - signed chap.180 [A08462 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A08462-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8462--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 21, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, STIRPE, DESTITO, FIELDS -- read once
         and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --  recommit-
         ted  to  the  Committee  on Governmental Operations in accordance with
         Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating June 2  as
         Italian Independence Day, 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  241  of  the  laws  of 2009, 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", the first Sunday  in
   16  June,  to  be  known  as  "Children's  Day", JUNE SECOND, TO BE KNOWN AS
   17  "ITALIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans
   18  Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known  as  "Juneteenth  Freedom
   19  Day",  June  twenty-fifth,  to  be  known as "Korean War Veterans' Day",
   20  August twenty-fourth, to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",
   21  September  eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also
   22  to be known as "September 11th Remembrance Day",  September  thirteenth,
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10227-03-0
       A. 8462--A                          2
    1  to  be  known as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day
    2  in the State of New York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Fried-
    3  rich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to
    4  be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date
    5  of  commemoration  cannot  be  observed due to a religious holiday, such
    6  observances shall then be conducted on the second Friday  of  September,
    7  the  last  Saturday  in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the
    8  fourth Saturday of September, known as "Native-American Day",  the  last
    9  Sunday  in  September,  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October
   10  fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October  eleventh,  to  be
   11  known  as "New Netherland Day in the State of New York", October twenty-
   12  seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to  be
   13  known  as  "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as
   14  "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in November to be  known
   15  as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", Novem-
   16  ber  thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December seventh,
   17  to be known as "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to  be  known  as
   18  "Bastogne  Day"  and  that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as
   19  new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.