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                                  1764

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 6, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sen.  FARLEY -- 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 designation of  August
  seventh as "Family 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
separately  amended by chapters 61, 90, 330 and 356 of the laws of 2008,
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", 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  twelfth,  to  be  known  as
"Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "June-
teenth  Freedom  Day",  June  twenty-fifth,  to  be known as "Korean War
Veterans' Day", AUGUST SEVENTH, TO BE  KNOWN  AS  "FAMILY  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, 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 "Friedrich
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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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commemoration cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such obser-
vances  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", November thir-
tieth, 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 on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.