Bill Text: NY A09691 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes March twenty-fifth as "We Care Remembrance Day".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-28 - referred to governmental operations [A09691 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09691-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9691

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2022
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        Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to establishing March
          twenty-fifth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "We  Care
          Remembrance 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-fifth, to be  known  as  "We
    12  Care  Remembrance  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
    26  11th  Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry
    27  Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of  New  York",

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14501-01-2
        A. 9691                             2

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