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                                  7931

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                              May 24, 2010
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Introduced  by  Sen.  STACHOWSKI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  designating  October
  eighteenth as Disabilities History 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 31 and 72 of the laws of 2010, 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
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",
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 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 "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 obser-

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

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vances  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 EIGHTEENTH, TO BE
KNOWN AS "DISABILITIES HISTORY DAY", 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.