Bill Text: NY A02322 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes July sixteenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Atomic and Nuclear Veterans Day".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A02322 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02322-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2322

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to establishing July
          sixteenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Atomic  and
          Nuclear Veterans 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",  July
    22  sixteenth,  to  be  known  as  "Atomic and Nuclear Veterans Day", August
    23  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
    24  ty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh,  to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04139-01-3
        A. 2322                             2

     1  be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem-
     2  ber  11th  Remembrance  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John
     3  Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the  State  of  New
     4  York",  September  seventeenth,  to  be  known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von
     5  Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New
     6  York 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.