Bill Text: NY S03284 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes September twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as Veteran Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-28 - referred to governmental operations [S03284 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03284-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3284

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. SANDERS, ADDABBO, BORRELLO, COMRIE, HARCKHAM, HELM-
          ING, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KENNEDY,  LIU,  MYRIE,  O'MARA,  PERSAUD,
          SKOUFIS,  STEC,  THOMAS,  WEIK  -- 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 September
          twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Veteran
          Suicide Awareness and Remembrance 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  amended by chapter 237 of the laws  of  2020,  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", the first Sunday  in  June,  to  be
    17  known  as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Inde-
    18  pendence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans  Recognition
    19  Day",  June  nineteenth,  to  be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June
    20  twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean  War  Veterans'  Day",  the  second
    21  Monday  in  July,  to  be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August
    22  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05922-01-3
        S. 3284                             2

     1  ty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh,  to
     2  be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem-
     3  ber  11th  Remembrance  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John
     4  Barry  Day"  and  also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New
     5  York", September seventeenth, to be  known  as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von
     6  Steuben  Memorial Day", September twenty-second, to be known as "Veteran
     7  Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day", the third Friday in September to
     8  be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date
     9  of commemoration cannot be observed due to  a  religious  holiday,  such
    10  observances  shall  then be conducted on the second Friday of September,
    11  the last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of  1812  Day",  the
    12  fourth  Saturday  of September, known as "Native-American Day", the last
    13  Sunday in September, to be known as "Gold Star  Mothers'  Day",  October
    14  fifth,  to  be  known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be
    15  known as "New Netherland Day in the State of New  York",  October  eigh-
    16  teenth,  to  be known as "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-sev-
    17  enth, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day",  November  ninth,  to  be
    18  known  as  "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as
    19  "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in November to be  known
    20  as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", Novem-
    21  ber thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to
    22  be  known  as "International Day of Persons with Disabilities", December
    23  seventh, to be known as "Pearl Harbor Day", December  sixteenth,  to  be
    24  known  as "Bastogne Day" and that day of the Asian lunar calendar desig-
    25  nated as new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.