NY State Senate Bill S4093

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Apr 27, 2022	referred to governmental operations delivered to assembly passed senate
Jan 24, 2022	advanced to third reading
Jan 20, 2022	2nd report cal.
Jan 19, 2022	1st report cal.260
Jan 05, 2022	referred to finance returned to senate died in assembly
May 26, 2021	referred to governmental operations delivered to assembly passed senate
May 19, 2021	advanced to third reading
May 12, 2021	2nd report cal.
May 11, 2021	1st report cal.1012
Feb 02, 2021	referred to finance

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S4093 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6975
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S6712, A8602
2023-2024: S3284, A5114

S4093 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes September twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as Veteran Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day.

S4093 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S4093

SPONSOR: SANDERS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing September
twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Veteran
Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day"

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to designate September 22-d as "Veteran
Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day."

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 - Amends Section 168-a (3) of the executive law to add Septem-
ber 22nd as "Veteran Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day."

Section 2 - Effective Date - Immediately.

 
EXISTING LAW:

Under the existing law there are a number of days designated to commem-
orate historical events, people, cultural or religious celebrations, and
patriotic causes.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has previously reported
that on average 22 veterans a day commit suicide. The rate of suicide
among veterans was 1.4 times higher among male veterans and 1.8 times
higher among female veterans when compared to the general adult popu-
lation. In 2016 alone, 153 Veterans in New York committed suicide. This
legislation designates September 22nd as "Veteran Suicide Awareness and
Remembrance Day." On this day New Yorkers will be called to remember
that many of the wounds of war are unseen and persist long after the end
of a veteran's military service. This day will honor the fallen and
their families by bringing awareness to this issue and commemorating
their service to our country.

If you are a veteran or know a veteran in need of help you may contact
the Veteran Crisis line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days at
1-800-273-8255 and Press 1 to talk to someone or send a text message to
838255 to connect with a Veterans Affair responder.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately

S4093 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4093
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 2, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SANDERS,  ADDABBO, BIAGGI, BOYLE, BROOKS, COMRIE,
   GAUGHRAN, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN, JACKSON,  KAPLAN,  KENNEDY,  LIU,  MYRIE,
   PERSAUD,  SERINO,  THOMAS  -- 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 September
   twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Veteran
   Suicide Awareness and Remembrance 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", 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",  the  second
 Monday  in  July,  to  be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August
 twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD02828-01-1

 S. 4093                             2
 
 ty-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 "Septem-
 ber  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", SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SECOND, TO BE KNOWN AS "VETERAN
 SUICIDE AWARENESS AND REMEMBRANCE DAY", the third Friday in September to
 be known as "New York 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  eigh-
 teenth,  to  be known as "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-sev-
 enth, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day",  November  ninth,  to  be
 known  as  "Witness for Tolerance Day", November 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", Novem-
 ber 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 desig-
 nated as new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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