Assembly Bill A704

2021-2022 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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2021-A704 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1847
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9717, S7316
2023-2024: A932, S440

2021-A704 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-A704 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                    704
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 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  237  of  the  laws  of 2020, 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
 "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",  the
 second  Monday  in  July,  to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day",
 August twenty-fourth, to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",
 August  twenty-sixth,  to  be known as "Women's Equality Day", September
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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