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                                 5481--A
    Cal. No. 10

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 11, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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  report,
  amended  on  first  report,  ordered  to  a  second report and ordered
  reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  establishing  Women's
  Equality Day

  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 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  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Inde-
pendence Day", AUGUST TWENTY-SIXTH, TO BE  KNOWN  AS  "WOMEN'S  EQUALITY
DAY", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and

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

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also  to  be  known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September thir-
teenth, 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 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", Novem-
ber ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth,
to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in Novem-
ber to be known as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recogni-
tion Day", November 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.