Senate Bill S7349

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Designates September eleventh of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Emergency Responders' Appreciation Day"

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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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2015-S7349 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10185
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A340
2019-2020: A522
2021-2022: A3533

2015-S7349 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates September eleventh of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Emergency Responders' Appreciation Day".

2015-S7349 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7349 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  7349

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 20, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- 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  September
  eleventh  of  each  year as a day of commemoration known as "Emergency
  Responders' Appreciation 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 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" AND ALSO TO BE  KNOWN  AS  "EMERGENCY  RESPONDERS'
APPRECIATION 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
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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