Bill Text: NY A09078 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes December third as "International Day of Persons with Disabilities".

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-06 - substituted by s6068 [A09078 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09078-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9078
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 20, 2012
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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  December
         third  of  each year as a day of commemoration known as "International
         Day of Persons with Disabilities"
         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 31, 72, 180 and 199 of the laws of  2010,
    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",  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", August  twenty-
   21  fourth,  to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-
   22  sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to  be
   23  known  as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September
   24  11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John  Barry
   25  Day"  and  also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
   26  September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
   27  Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13825-01-2
       A. 9078                             2
    1  State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except  if  such  date  of  commemoration
    2  cannot  be  observed  due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
    3  then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the  last  Saturday
    4  in  September,  to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
    5  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
    6  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be  known  as
    7  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
    8  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
    9  bilities  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
   10  Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as  "Witness  for  Tolerance
   11  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
   12  third  Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
   13  Professionals Recognition Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as
   14  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",  DECEMBER THIRD, TO BE KNOWN AS "INTERNATIONAL
   15  DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES", December  seventh,  to  be  known  as
   16  "Pearl  Harbor  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
   17  and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new  year  to  be
   18  known as "Asian New Year".
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.