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. LBD04139-01-3A. 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.