The New York State Senate

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                            January 29, 2018
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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

                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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State  POW/MIA  Recognition  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 Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
bilities  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
Roosevelt Day", NOVEMBER FIRST, TO BE KNOWN AS  "MILITARY  OPPORTUNITIES
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".
  § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.