Bill Text: NY A06325 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing May fourteenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Henry Lincoln Johnson Day"

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to governmental operations [A06325 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A06325-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6325
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 2, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. TOWNS, GREENE, WALKER, ALFANO, J. RIVERA, REILLY,
         ORTIZ,  SCHROEDER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BACALLES, BRODSKY,
         BURLING, DIAZ, FARRELL, GLICK, PEOPLES, PERRY, SPANO, SWEENEY, WEISEN-
         BERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental  Oper-
         ations
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing May four-
         teenth  of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Henry Lincoln
         Johnson 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  separately amended by chapters 61, 90, 330 and 356 of the laws of  2008,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    3.  The  following  days  shall be days of commemoration in each year:
    5  January sixth, to be known as "Haym Salomon Day", February fourth, to be
    6  known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan  B.
    7  Anthony  Day",  February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independ-
    8  ence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as  "Gulf  War  Veterans'
    9  Day",  March  fourth,  to  be known as "Pulaski Day", March tenth, to be
   10  known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
   11  nam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW  Recognition  Day",
   12  April  twenty-seventh,  to  be  known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April
   13  twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
   14  in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", MAY  FOURTEENTH,  TO
   15  BE KNOWN AS "HENRY LINCOLN JOHNSON DAY", the first Sunday in June, to be
   16  known  as "Children's Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans
   17  Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known  as  "Juneteenth  Freedom
   18  Day",  June  twenty-fifth,  to  be  known as "Korean War Veterans' Day",
   19  August twenty-fourth, to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",
   20  September  eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also
   21  to be known as "September 11th Remembrance Day",  September  thirteenth,
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 6325                             2
    1  to  be  known as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day
    2  in the State of New York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Fried-
    3  rich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to
    4  be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date
    5  of  commemoration  cannot  be  observed due to a religious holiday, such
    6  observances shall then be conducted on the second Friday  of  September,
    7  the  last  Saturday  in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the
    8  fourth Saturday of September, known as "Native-American Day",  the  last
    9  Sunday  in  September,  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October
   10  fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October  eleventh,  to  be
   11  known  as "New Netherland Day in the State of New York", October twenty-
   12  seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to  be
   13  known  as  "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as
   14  "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in November to be  known
   15  as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", Novem-
   16  ber  thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December seventh,
   17  to be known as "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to  be  known  as
   18  "Bastogne  Day"  and  that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as
   19  new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.