Bill Text: NY A09680 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes July sixteenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Atomic and Nuclear Veterans Day".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-04 - referred to governmental operations [A09680 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09680-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9680

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  establishing  July
          sixteenth  of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Atomic and
          Nuclear Veterans 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 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", July sixteenth,
    21  to be known as "Atomic and Nuclear 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
    25  Remembrance  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day"
    26  and also to be known as "Uncle Sam  Day  in  the  State  of  New  York",
    27  September  seventeenth,  to  be  known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13983-02-9
        A. 9680                             2

     1  Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known  as  "New  York
     2  State  POW/MIA  Recognition  Day"  except  if such date of commemoration
     3  cannot be observed due to a religious holiday,  such  observances  shall
     4  then  be  conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
     5  in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth  Saturday  of
     6  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
     7  to  be  known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
     8  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
     9  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
    10  bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Theodore
    11  Roosevelt  Day",  November  ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
    12  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    13  third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State  School-Related
    14  Professionals  Recognition  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as
    15  "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International
    16  Day  of  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December seventh, to be known as
    17  "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known  as  "Bastogne  Day"
    18  and  that  day  of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
    19  known as "Asian New Year".
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.