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                                    216
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. MARCHIONE, AKSHAR, CROCI, DeFRANCISCO, FUNKE, GALLI-
   VAN,  GOLDEN,  LARKIN,  RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Veter-
   ans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs

 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04047-01-7

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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".
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.