Senate Bill S6068

Signed By Governor
2011-2012 Legislative Session

Establishes December third as "International Day of Persons with Disabilities"

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-S6068 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9078
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง168-a, Exec L

2011-S6068 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes December third as "International Day of Persons with Disabilities".

2011-S6068 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S6068 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6068

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 4, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 establishing  December
  third  of  each year as a day of commemoration known as "International
  Day of Persons with Disabilities"

  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 seventeenth, to
be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday  in  June,  to  be
known  as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Inde-
pendence 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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