Senate Bill S5323

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 5323--A
    Cal. No. 8

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sens. MORAHAN, STEWART-COUSINS, ALESI, BONACIC, BRESLIN,
  DeFRANCISCO, DIAZ, FOLEY, HANNON,  HASSELL-THOMPSON,  KRUEGER,  LANZA,
  LARKIN,  LAVALLE,  MAZIARZ,  MONTGOMERY,  ONORATO,  PADAVAN,  PERKINS,
  RANZENHOFER, SAMPSON, SAVINO, STAVISKY, VOLKER, WINNER --  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 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

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

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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,
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.