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                                   8825
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               July 20, 2020
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to making May 15th Police
   Memorial Day, a state holiday, and requiring  the  state  division  of
   criminal  justice  services to annually organize a fitting ceremony at
   the Police Memorial Wall and  requiring  the  governor  to  appear  in
   person at such ceremony
 
   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 FIFTEENTH, TO BE
 KNOWN AS "POLICE MEMORIAL DAY", May seventeenth, to be known  as  "Thur-
 good 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  nine-
 teenth,  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the division  of
 criminal  justice  services shall organize an annual fitting ceremony at
 the Police Memorial Wall at the Empire State  Plaza  in  Albany  on  the
 Monday falling closest to May 1st. The governor shall attend the ceremo-
 ny  in  person and shall read aloud the names of the police officers who
 have died during the previous year from injuries incurred in the line of
 duty.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.