senate Bill S6193A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Designates April twentieth as a day of commemoration to be known as New York state constitution day

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Actions

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 03, 2022 referred to governmental operations
delivered to assembly
passed senate
May 02, 2022 advanced to third reading
Apr 27, 2022 2nd report cal.
Apr 26, 2022 1st report cal.898
Jan 05, 2022 referred to judiciary
returned to senate
died in assembly
May 05, 2021 referred to governmental operations
delivered to assembly
passed senate
May 03, 2021 advanced to third reading
Apr 28, 2021 2nd report cal.
Apr 27, 2021 1st report cal.840
Apr 20, 2021 print number 6193a
Apr 20, 2021 amend (t) and recommit to judiciary
Apr 14, 2021 referred to judiciary

Votes

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Apr 26, 2022 - Judiciary committee Vote

S6193A
15
0
committee
15
Aye
0
Nay
0
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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Apr 27, 2021 - Judiciary committee Vote

S6193A
15
0
committee
15
Aye
0
Nay
0
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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S6193 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10122
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S280

S6193 - Summary

Designates April twentieth as a day of commemoration to be known as New York State Constitution Day.

S6193 - Sponsor Memo

S6193 - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6193
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to designating
   April  twentieth  as  a  public  holiday to be known as New York state
   constitution day

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 24 of the general construction law, as amended by
 chapter 249 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   § 24. Public holidays; half-holidays. The term public holiday includes
 the following days in each year: the first day of January, known as  New
 Year's  day;  the  third  Monday  of January, known as Dr. Martin Luther
 King, Jr. day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday;
 the third Monday in February, known as Washington's birthday; THE  TWEN-
 TIETH  OF  APRIL,  KNOWN  AS  NEW  YORK STATE CONSTITUTION DAY; the last
 Monday in May, known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in  June,  known
 as Flag day; the nineteenth day of June, known as Juneteenth; the fourth
 day  of  July, known as Independence day; the first Monday in September,
 known as Labor day; the second Monday in October, known as Columbus day;
 the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day; the fourth  Thurs-
 day  in November, known as Thanksgiving day; and the twenty-fifth day of
 December, known as Christmas day, and if any of such  days  except  Flag
 day  is  Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general election day, and
 each day appointed by the president of  the  United  States  or  by  the
 governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiving, general fasting
 and  prayer, or other general religious observances. The term half-holi-
 day includes the period from noon to midnight of each Saturday which  is
 not a public holiday.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10887-01-1

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S6193A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10122
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S280

S6193A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates April twentieth as a day of commemoration to be known as New York State Constitution Day.

S6193A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S6193A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6193--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed  to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  designating  April
   twentieth  as  a  day  of commemoration to be known as "New York State
   Constitution 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 TWENTIETH, TO BE KNOWN AS "NEW YORK STATE CONSTITUTION 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 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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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