Senate Bill S1505

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  1505

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 2, 2009
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Introduced  by Sens. DeFRANCISCO, ALESI, GRIFFO, MAZIARZ, MORAHAN, SAMP-
  SON, SEWARD, SKELOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when print-
  ed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

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
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 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
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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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 on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.