Bill Text: NY S02624 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the first Tuesday in June to be known as a day of commemoration as "Senior Citizens' Day".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-27 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S02624 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S02624-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2624
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 27, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- 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  designation  of  a
         "Senior Citizens' 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  separately  amended by chapters 31, 72, 180 and 199 of the laws of 2010,
    3  is amended to read as 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 TUESDAY IN JUNE, TO BE
   17  KNOWN AS "SENIOR CITIZENS' 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", 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"
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07270-01-1
       S. 2624                             2
    1  and  also  to  be  known  as  "Uncle  Sam Day in the State of New York",
    2  September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
    3  Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
    4  State  POW/MIA  Recognition  Day"  except  if such date of commemoration
    5  cannot be observed due to a religious holiday,  such  observances  shall
    6  then  be  conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
    7  in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth  Saturday  of
    8  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
    9  to  be  known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
   10  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
   11  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
   12  bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Theodore
   13  Roosevelt  Day",  November  ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
   14  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
   15  third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State  School-Related
   16  Professionals  Recognition  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as
   17  "Shirley Chisholm Day", December seventh, to be known as  "Pearl  Harbor
   18  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and that day of
   19  the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be  known  as  "Asian
   20  New Year".
   21    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   22  have become a law.