Senate Bill S7600

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes November first as Military Opportunities 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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2017-S7600 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9732
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S7600, A9732

2017-S7600 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes November first of each year as a day of commemoration known as Military Opportunities Day.

2017-S7600 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7600 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7600
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 29, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- 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  November
   first of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Military Oppor-
   tunities 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", 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
 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known  as  "New  York
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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