S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  6752

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 17, 2013
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BARRON, SCARBOROUGH, GIBSON, ROBERTS, CORWIN,
  ZEBROWSKI, JAFFEE, McLAUGHLIN, CAMARA, STEVENSON, ROBINSON  --  Multi-
  Sponsored by -- M. of A.  FARRELL, HEASTIE, MARKEY, 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
amended by chapter 481 of the laws  of  2012,  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
known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be  known

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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 third, to be  known  as  "International
Day  of  Persons  with  Disabilities",  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.