Bill Text: NY S02055 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the third Friday in September of each year as a day of commemoration known as "PARK(ing) Day".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S02055 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S02055-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2055
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 11, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing the third
Friday in September of each year as a day of commemoration known as
"PARK(ing) 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 separately amended by chapters 61, 90, 330 and 356 of the laws of 2008,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 3. The following days shall be days of commemoration in each year:
5 January sixth, to be known as "Haym Salomon Day", February fourth, to be
6 known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B.
7 Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independ-
8 ence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans'
9 Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day", March tenth, to be
10 known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
11 nam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day",
12 April twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April
13 twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
14 in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", the first Sunday in
15 June, to be known as "Children's Day", June twelfth, to be known as
16 "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "June-
17 teenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War
18 Veterans' Day", August twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Inde-
19 pendence Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh
20 Day" and also to be known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September
21 thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as
22 "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York", September seventeenth, to be
23 known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday
24 in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" AND
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ALSO TO BE KNOWN AS "PARK(ING) 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 twenty-seventh, to be known as
9 "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for
10 Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton
11 Day", the third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State
12 School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be
13 known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December seventh, to be known as "Pearl
14 Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and that
15 day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be known as
16 "Asian New Year".
17 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
