Bill Text: NY A06583 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6583

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Bill Title: Establishes November twenty-sixth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Sojourner Truth Day".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 49-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-25 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A06583 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06583-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6583

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SHRESTHA -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing November
          twenty-sixth of each year as a day of commemoration known as  "Sojour-
          ner Truth 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",  August
    22  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
    23  ty-sixth,  to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to
    24  be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05369-01-3

        A. 6583                             2

     1  ber 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be  known  as  "John
     2  Barry  Day"  and  also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New
     3  York", September seventeenth, to be  known  as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von
     4  Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New
     5  York 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 twenty-sixth, to  be  known  as
    18  "Sojourner  Truth  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as "Shirley
    19  Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International  Day  of
    20  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December  seventh,  to be known as "Pearl
    21  Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and  that
    22  day  of  the  Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be known as
    23  "Asian New Year".
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.