Senate Bill S7316

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to designating the fourth Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration 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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2019-S7316 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9717
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S1847, A704
2023-2024: S440, A932

2019-S7316 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates the fourth Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day".

2019-S7316 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7316 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7316
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 the fourth
   Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration 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", THE FOURTH THURSDAY IN MARCH, TO BE KNOWN
 AS  "TUSKEGEE AIRMEN COMMEMORATION 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  seven-
 teenth,  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 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 seventeenth, to  be  known  as  "Friedrich
 Wilhelm  von  Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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