Senate Bill S3248

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 3248--A
    Cal. No. 5

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 13, 2009
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Introduced   by  Sens.  DeFRANCISCO,  ALESI,  GRIFFO,  HUNTLEY,  LARKIN,
  LAVALLE, NOZZOLIO, ONORATO, OPPENHEIMER, PADAVAN,  SEWARD,  VOLKER  --
  read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
  the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in
  accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from  said
  committee,  ordered  to  first  and  second  report, amended on second
  report, ordered to a third reading, and to be  reprinted  as  amended,
  retaining its place in the order of third reading

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",

 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.