Bill Text: NY S01899 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to designating the month of May as "Korean American Family Month".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-06 - referred to governmental operations [S01899 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01899-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1899

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating the  month
          of May as Korean American Family Month

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  168-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 168-b. Designation of months of commemoration. 1. A month of commem-
     4  oration  is a calendar month so designated by this section or a calendar
     5  month in any one year so designated by a proclamation of the governor or
     6  resolution of the senate and assembly jointly adopted.
     7    2. A month of commemoration shall not constitute a holiday or half-ho-
     8  liday but shall be a month set aside in recognition and special honor of
     9  a person, persons, group, ideal or goal.
    10    3. The following month shall be a month of commemoration in each year:
    11  May, to be known as "Korean American Family Month".
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    13  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05152-01-3
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