Senate Bill S442

                            
 
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                                    442
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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  June
   twentieth as a day of commemoration to be known as "Edie Windsor 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
 TWENTIETH,  TO  BE KNOWN AS "EDIE WINDSOR 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 eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 S. 442                              2
 
 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.