Assembly Actions -
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Jan 05, 2022 |
referred to finance |
Dec 15, 2021 |
referred to rules |
Senate Bill S7598
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2021-S7598 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Finance
- Law Section:
- Executive Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §168-a, Exec L
2021-S7598 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S7598 SPONSOR: RATH TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the executive law, in relation to the designation of Bill of Rights Day as a day of commemoration PURPOSE: To designate December fifteenth of each year as "Bill of Rights Day" SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Amends subdivision three of section 168-a of the executive law to desig- nate December fifteenth of each year as Bill of Rights Day. JUSTIFICATION: The Bill of Rights was ratified on December 15, 1791. It represented, and continues to represent, the foundation of our fundamental values as
2021-S7598 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7598 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E December 15, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RATH -- 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 the designation of Bill of Rights Day as a day of commemoration 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- 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13910-01-1
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