Assembly Bill A7068

                            
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                                 7068--A
                                                        Cal. No. 469

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 19, 2009
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Introduced  by M. of A. JAFFEE, CLARK, RUSSELL, MILLMAN, GALEF, DESTITO,
  CAHILL, ZEBROWSKI, CAMARA, SCHIMMINGER,  MENG,  BARRON,  JOHN,  ORTIZ,
  WEISENBERG,  REILLY,  GUNTHER, DelMONTE, MAISEL, CANESTRARI, BENJAMIN,
  CHRISTENSEN, ESPAILLAT, SCHIMEL, SPANO, ROBINSON, COOK, HOOPER,  AUBRY
  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- reported  from  commit-
  tee,  advanced  to  a  third  reading,  amended and ordered reprinted,
  retaining its place on the order of third reading

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the designation  of  a
  "Thurgood Marshall Day" as a day of commemoration

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 168-a of  the  executive  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  241  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. The following days shall be days of  commemoration  in  each  year:
January  sixth,  to  be known as "Haym Salomon Day", January twenty-sev-
enth, to be known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be
known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan  B.
Anthony  Day",  February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independ-
ence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as  "Gulf  War  Veterans'
Day",  March  fourth,  to  be known as "Pulaski Day", March tenth, to be
known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
nam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW  Recognition  Day",
April  twenty-seventh,  to  be  known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April
twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", MAY SEVENTEENTH,  TO
BE  KNOWN  AS  "THURGOOD  MARSHALL DAY", the first Sunday in June, to be
known as "Children's Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women  Veterans
Recognition  Day",  June  nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom
Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known  as  "Korean  War  Veterans'  Day",

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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August  twenty-fourth,  to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian Independence Day",
September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and  also
to  be  known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth,
to  be  known as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day
in the State of New York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Fried-
rich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to
be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date
of commemoration cannot be observed due to  a  religious  holiday,  such
observances  shall  then be conducted on the second Friday of September,
the last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of  1812  Day",  the
fourth  Saturday  of September, known as "Native-American Day", the last
Sunday in September, to be known as "Gold Star  Mothers'  Day",  October
fifth,  to  be  known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be
known as "New Netherland Day in the State of New York", October  twenty-
seventh,  to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be
known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be  known  as
"Elizabeth  Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in November to be known
as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", Novem-
ber thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December  seventh,
to  be  known  as "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as
"Bastogne Day" and that day of the Asian lunar  calendar  designated  as
new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.