Assembly Bill A8402

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Establishes March 13 as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans Day"

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  • Delivered to Governor
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2013-A8402 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6163
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A2232, S3826
2017-2018: A5019, S216
2019-2020: A1352
2021-2022: A2496
2023-2024: A1168

2013-A8402 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes March 13 as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans Day".

2013-A8402 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  8402

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  establishing  March
  thirteenth as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans 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 THIRTEENTH,  TO  BE  KNOWN  AS  "K9
VETERANS  DAY",  March  twenty-ninth,  to be known as "Vietnam 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 "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
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-

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

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