Bill Text: NY A05674 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates March twenty-first as a day of commemoration to be known as "Down Syndrome Awareness Day".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-11 - enacting clause stricken [A05674 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05674-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5674

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 20, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DeSTEFANO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  designating  March
          twenty-first as "Down Syndrome Awareness 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-first, to be known as  "Down
    12  Syndrome  Awareness  Day",  March  twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam
    13  Veterans' 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", the second  Monday  in
    22  July,  to  be  known  as  "Abolition  Commemoration Day", August twenty-
    23  fourth, to be known as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",  August  twenty-
    24  sixth,  to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be
    25  known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as  "September

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00368-01-3
        A. 5674                             2

     1  11th  Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry
     2  Day" 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    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.