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                                  6408

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 16, 2011
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Introduced  by M. of A. BARRON, SCARBOROUGH, GIBSON, P. RIVERA, ROBERTS,
  CORWIN,  ZEBROWSKI,  SPANO,  JAFFEE,  McLAUGHLIN,  N. RIVERA,  CAMARA,
  CASTRO, STEVENSON, ROBINSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FARRELL,
  HEASTIE,  McENENY, TITONE, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing May four-
  teenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Henry  Lincoln
  Johnson 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, 72, 180 and 199 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  FOURTEENTH,  TO
BE KNOWN AS "HENRY LINCOLN JOHNSON DAY", May seventeenth, to be known as
"Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Chil-
dren's  Day",  June  second,  to be known as "Italian Independence 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

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