Bill Text: NY A10177 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to designating January 13th as Korean-American Day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-16 - referred to governmental operations [A10177 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10177-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10177
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 16, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. KIM
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designation of days 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 thirteenth, to
     6  be known as "Korean-American Day", January twenty-seventh, to  be  known
     7  as  "Holocaust  Remembrance  Day", February fourth, to be known as "Rosa
     8  Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B.  Anthony  Day",
     9  February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independence Day", Febru-
    10  ary  twenty-eighth,  to  be  known  as  "Gulf  War Veterans' Day", March
    11  fourth, to be known as "Pulaski  Day",  March  tenth,  to  be  known  as
    12  "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
    13  ans'  Day",  April  ninth,  to  be known as "POW Recognition Day", April
    14  twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day",  April  twenty-
    15  eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May
    16  to  be  known  as  "New  York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be
    17  known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be  known
    18  as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence
    19  Day", June twelfth, to be known as  "Women  Veterans  Recognition  Day",
    20  June  nineteenth,  to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-
    21  fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", August  twenty-fourth,
    22  to  be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be
    23  known as "Women's Equality Day", September  eleventh,  to  be  known  as
    24  "Battle  of  Plattsburgh  Day"  and  also to be known as "September 11th
    25  Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry  Day"
    26  and  also  to  be  known  as  "Uncle  Sam Day in the State of New York",
    27  September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
    28  Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07609-01-5
        A. 10177                            2
     1  State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except  if  such  date  of  commemoration
     2  cannot  be  observed  due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
     3  then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the  last  Saturday
     4  in  September,  to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
     5  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
     6  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be  known  as
     7  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
     8  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
     9  bilities  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
    10  Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as  "Witness  for  Tolerance
    11  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    12  third  Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
    13  Professionals Recognition Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as
    14  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",  December third, to be known as "International
    15  Day of Persons with Disabilities", December  seventh,  to  be  known  as
    16  "Pearl  Harbor  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
    17  and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new  year  to  be
    18  known as "Asian New Year".
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.