Bill Text: NY S06285 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to making May 15th Police Memorial Day, a state holiday; requires the state division of criminal justice services to annually organize a fitting ceremony at the Police Memorial Wall; requires the governor to appear in person at such ceremony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 17-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S06285 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06285-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6285

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 20, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. SERINO, AKSHAR, BORRELLO, BOYLE, GALLIVAN, GRIFFO,
          HELMING, JORDAN, LANZA, O'MARA, ORTT, RITCHIE, TEDISCO --  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 making May 15th Police
          Memorial  Day,  a  state  holiday, and requiring the state division of
          criminal justice services to annually organize a fitting  ceremony  at
          the  Police  Memorial  Wall  and  requiring  the governor to appear in
          person at such ceremony

          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  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 fifteenth, to be
    16  known  as  "Police Memorial Day," May seventeenth, to be known as "Thur-
    17  good Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Children's
    18  Day", June second, to be  known  as  "Italian  Independence  Day",  June
    19  twelfth,  to  be  known  as "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nine-
    20  teenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June  twenty-fifth,  to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in July, to be
     2  known  as  "Abolition  Commemoration  Day",  August twenty-fourth, to be
     3  known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be  known
     4  as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
     5  Plattsburgh  Day"  and  also  to be known as "September 11th Remembrance
     6  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also  to
     7  be  known  as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York", September seven-
     8  teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
     9  third Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA  Recog-
    10  nition  Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due
    11  to a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on  the
    12  second  Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be known
    13  as "War of 1812  Day",  the  fourth  Saturday  of  September,  known  as
    14  "Native-American  Day",  the  last  Sunday  in September, to be known as
    15  "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as  "Raoul  Wallen-
    16  berg  Day",  October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day in the
    17  State of New York", October eighteenth, to  be  known  as  "Disabilities
    18  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
    19  Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
    20  ber  twelfth,  to  be  known  as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third
    21  Tuesday in November to  be  known  as  "New  York  State  School-Related
    22  Professionals  Recognition  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as
    23  "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International
    24  Day  of  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December seventh, to be known as
    25  "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known  as  "Bastogne  Day"
    26  and  that  day  of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
    27  known as "Asian New Year".
    28    § 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the division  of
    29  criminal  justice  services shall organize an annual fitting ceremony at
    30  the Police Memorial Wall at the Empire State  Plaza  in  Albany  on  the
    31  Monday falling closest to May 1st. The governor shall attend the ceremo-
    32  ny  in  person and shall read aloud the names of the police officers who
    33  have died during the previous year from injuries incurred in the line of
    34  duty.
    35    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.