Bill Text: NY A01574 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1574 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Designates the tenth day of March of each year as a public holiday, to be known as Harriet Tubman day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A01574 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01574-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1574
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Judiciary
        AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to the  desig-
          nation of Harriet Tubman day
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 24 of the general construction law, as  amended  by
     2  chapter 347 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 24. Public holidays; half-holidays. The term public holiday includes
     4  the following days in each year:  the first day of January, known as New
     5  Year's  day;  the  third  Monday  of January, known as Dr. Martin Luther
     6  King, Jr. day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday;
     7  the third Monday in February, known as Washington's birthday; the  tenth
     8  day of March, known as Harriet Tubman day; the last Monday in May, known
     9  as  Memorial  day;  the  second  Sunday  in June, known as Flag day; the
    10  fourth day of July, known as  Independence  day;  the  first  Monday  in
    11  September,  known  as  Labor day; the second Monday in October, known as
    12  Columbus day; the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day;  the
    13  fourth  Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving day; and the twenty-
    14  fifth day of December, known as Christmas day, and if any of  such  days
    15  except  Flag  day  is  Sunday,  the  next  day  thereafter; each general
    16  election day, and each day appointed by  the  president  of  the  United
    17  States  or  by the governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiv-
    18  ing, general fasting and prayer, or other general religious observances.
    19  The term half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of  each
    20  Saturday which is not a public holiday.
    21    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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