Senate Bill S1036A

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 1036--A
    Cal. No. 2

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2009
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Introduced  by Sens. LARKIN, ALESI, BONACIC, FARLEY, FUSCHILLO, MORAHAN,
  SEWARD, VOLKER, YOUNG -- 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, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
  retaining its place in the order of third reading

AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to designating February
  fourteenth, to be known as "Congenital Heart Defects  Awareness  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 FOURTEENTH, TO BE KNOWN AS  "CONGEN-
ITAL  HEART  DEFECTS  AWARENESS DAY", February fifteenth, to be known as
"Susan B. Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to be known  as  "Lithuanian
Independence  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
"Vietnam  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  "Juneteenth  Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean

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

                                                           LBD06560-03-0

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War Veterans' Day", August twenty-fourth,  to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian
Independence Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Platts-
burgh  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  seven-
teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
third  Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recog-
nition 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 Wallen-
berg 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  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.