Bill Text: NY S06658 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the second Monday in July each year as a day of commemoration, to be known as Abolition Commemoration day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-10-07 - SIGNED CHAP.237 [S06658 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6658

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 21, 2019
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to the  desig-
          nation of Abolition Commemoration day 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  last
     8  Monday  in  May, known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in June, known
     9  as Flag day; the fourth day of July,  known  as  Independence  day;  the
    10  second  Monday  in July, known as Abolition Commemoration day; the first
    11  Monday in September, known as Labor day; the second Monday  in  October,
    12  known  as Columbus day; the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans'
    13  day; the fourth Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving  day;  [and]
    14  the  twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day, and if any of
    15  such days except Flag day is  Sunday,  the  next  day  thereafter;  each
    16  general  election  day,  and  each day appointed by the president of the
    17  United States or by the governor of this  state  as  a  day  of  general
    18  thanksgiving,  general  fasting  and  prayer, or other general religious
    19  observances. The term half-holiday includes  the  period  from  noon  to
    20  midnight of each Saturday which is not a public holiday.
    21    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    22  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.
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