Assembly Bill A8462

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 8462--A

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 21, 2009
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Introduced  by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, STIRPE, DESTITO, FIELDS -- read once
  and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --  recommit-
  ted  to  the  Committee  on Governmental Operations in accordance with
  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating June 2  as
  Italian Independence Day, 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", the first Sunday  in
June,  to  be  known  as  "Children's  Day", JUNE SECOND, TO BE KNOWN AS
"ITALIAN INDEPENDENCE 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",
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,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10227-03-0
              

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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.