S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5114
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 2, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, SILLITTI -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Governmental Operations
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-
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-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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.