Bill Text: NY A10923 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the designation of Good Friday as a public holiday.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-29 - referred to governmental operations [A10923 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10923-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10923
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 29, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to amend the general construction law and the education law, in
          relation to the designation of Good Friday as a public holiday
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 24 of the general construction law, as amended by
     2  chapter 347 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 24. Public holidays; half-holidays. The term public holiday includes
     4  the following days in each year:  the first day of January, known as New
     5  Year's day; the third Monday of January,  known  as  Dr.  Martin  Luther
     6  King, Jr. day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday;
     7  the third Monday in February, known as Washington's birthday; the Friday
     8  immediately before Easter, known as Good Friday; the last Monday in May,
     9  known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in June, known as Flag day; the
    10  fourth  day  of  July,  known  as  Independence day; the first Monday in
    11  September, known as Labor day; the second Monday in  October,  known  as
    12  Columbus  day; the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day; the
    13  fourth Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving day; and the  twenty-
    14  fifth  day  of December, known as Christmas day, and if any of such days
    15  except Flag day  is  Sunday,  the  next  day  thereafter;  each  general
    16  election  day,  and  each  day  appointed by the president of the United
    17  States or by the governor of this state as a day of  general  thanksgiv-
    18  ing, general fasting and prayer, or other general religious observances.
    19  The  term half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of each
    20  Saturday which is not a public holiday.
    21    § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  3204-a  to
    22  read as follows:
    23    § 3204-a. Good Friday school holiday. 1. The Friday immediately before
    24  Easter,  commonly  known as Good Friday, shall be declared a holiday for
    25  all public schools.
    26    2. The term "Good Friday" shall replace "Spring  Recess"  and  similar
    27  terminology  on  all public school district calendars and communications
    28  that reference Good Friday.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 3. Section 3604 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 7-c to read as follows:
     3    7-c.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, for purposes of any
     4  calculation under subdivision  seven  or  eight  of  this  section,  the
     5  commissioner shall disregard any reduction resulting from the observance
     6  of  Good Friday and, if necessary, such observed holiday shall be calcu-
     7  lated as a session day.
     8    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
     9  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.