Bill Text: NY A05427 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes January 4th as an annual day of commemoration to be known as "George Washington Carver Day".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A05427 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05427-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5427
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 26, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  establishing  January
         fourth  of  each year as a day of commemoration known as "George Wash-
         ington Carver 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 481 of the laws  of  2012,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    3.  The  following  days  shall be days of commemoration in each year:
    5  JANUARY FOURTH, TO BE KNOWN AS "GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER  DAY",  January
    6  sixth,  to be known as "Haym Salomon Day", January twenty-seventh, to be
    7  known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to  be  known  as
    8  "Rosa  Parks  Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B. Anthony
    9  Day", February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independence  Day",
   10  February  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", August  twenty-fourth,
   22  to  be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be
   23  known as "Women's Equality Day", September  eleventh,  to  be  known  as
   24  "Battle  of  Plattsburgh  Day"  and  also to be known as "September 11th
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09275-01-3
       A. 5427                             2
    1  Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry  Day"
    2  and  also  to  be  known  as  "Uncle  Sam Day in the State of New York",
    3  September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
    4  Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
    5  State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except  if  such  date  of  commemoration
    6  cannot  be  observed  due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
    7  then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the  last  Saturday
    8  in  September,  to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
    9  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
   10  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be  known  as
   11  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
   12  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
   13  bilities  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
   14  Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as  "Witness  for  Tolerance
   15  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
   16  third  Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
   17  Professionals Recognition Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as
   18  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",  December third, to be known as "International
   19  Day of Persons with Disabilities", December  seventh,  to  be  known  as
   20  "Pearl  Harbor  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
   21  and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new  year  to  be
   22  known as "Asian New Year".
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.