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

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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]

Download: New_York-2019-S06658-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6658--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 21, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. BAILEY, BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec.  8  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  the  designation  of
          Abolition Commemoration 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  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", the second

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13595-05-0
        S. 6658--B                          2

     1  Monday in July, to be known as  "Abolition  Commemoration  Day",  August
     2  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
     3  ty-sixth,  to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to
     4  be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem-
     5  ber  11th  Remembrance  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John
     6  Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the  State  of  New
     7  York",  September  seventeenth,  to  be  known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von
     8  Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New
     9  York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
    10  cannot be observed due to a religious holiday,  such  observances  shall
    11  then  be  conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
    12  in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth  Saturday  of
    13  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
    14  to  be  known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
    15  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
    16  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
    17  bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Theodore
    18  Roosevelt  Day",  November  ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
    19  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    20  third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State  School-Related
    21  Professionals  Recognition  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as
    22  "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International
    23  Day  of  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December seventh, to be known as
    24  "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known  as  "Bastogne  Day"
    25  and  that  day  of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
    26  known as "Asian New Year".
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.