Bill Text: NY S08471 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates March 7th as COVID-19 Remembrance Day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S08471 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08471-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8471

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 3, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  designating  March
          seventh as "COVID-19 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  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 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 seventh, to be
    11  known as "COVID-19  Remembrance  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.
                                                                   LBD16540-01-0
        S. 8471                             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.