Bill Text: NY A00521 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A00521 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00521-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           521

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, 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 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 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", the second  Monday  in
    22  July,  to  be  known  as  "Abolition  Commemoration Day", August twenty-
    23  fourth, to be known as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",  August  twenty-
    24  sixth,  to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03470-01-1
        A. 521                              2

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