Bill Text: NY S07370 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Commemorates Constitution Day on September seventeenth.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S07370 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07370-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7370

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 10, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RATH  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to commemorating  consti-
          tution 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-
    23  ty-sixth,  to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to
    24  be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem-
    25  ber 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be  known  as  "John

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 7370                             2

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