Bill Text: NY S06057 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes November first of each year as a day of commemoration known as Military Opportunities Day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-26 - referred to governmental operations [S06057 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06057-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6057

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- 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 establishing  November
          first of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Military Oppor-
          tunities 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  481  of  the  laws  of 2012, 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-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 Sunday in June, to be
    17  known as "Children's Day", June second, to be known  as  "Italian  Inde-
    18  pendence  Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition
    19  Day", June nineteenth, to be known as  "Juneteenth  Freedom  Day",  June
    20  twenty-fifth,  to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", August twenty-
    21  fourth, to be known as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",  August  twenty-
    22  sixth,  to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be
    23  known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as  "September
    24  11th  Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08005-01-9
        S. 6057                             2

     1  Day" 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 first, to be known as "Military Opportunities
    14  Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
    15  ber twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton  Day",  the  third
    16  Tuesday  in  November  to  be  known  as  "New York State School-Related
    17  Professionals Recognition Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as
    18  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",  December third, to be known as "International
    19  Day of Persons with Disabilities", December  seventh,  to  be  known  as
    20  "Pearl  Harbor  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
    21  and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new  year  to  be
    22  known as "Asian New Year".
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.