Bill Text: NY A00704 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 704 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Designates the fourth Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A00704 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00704-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           704

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating the fourth
          Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration 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", the fourth Thursday in March, to be known
    12  "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known  as
    13  "Vietnam  Veterans'  Day",  April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition
    14  Day", April twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Coretta  Scott  King  Day",
    15  April  twenty-eighth,  to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first
    16  Tuesday in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day",  May  seven-
    17  teenth,  to  be  known  as  "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in
    18  June, to be known as "Children's Day",  June  second,  to  be  known  as
    19  "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans
    20  Recognition  Day",  June  nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom
    21  Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day",  the
    22  second  Monday  in  July,  to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day",
    23  August twenty-fourth, to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",
    24  August  twenty-sixth,  to  be known as "Women's Equality Day", September

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05265-01-1

        A. 704                              2

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