Bill Text: NY A10720 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates March 8th each year as a day of commemoration, to be known as International Women's Day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-09 - referred to governmental operations [A10720 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10720-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10720

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Reyes) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  the  designation  of
          International Women's Day as a day of commemoration

          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 eighth, to be
    11  known as "International Women's  Day",  March  tenth,  to  be  known  as
    12  "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
    13  ans'  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",
    28  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.
                                                                   LBD15577-01-2
        A. 10720                            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.