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                                   7993
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 4, 2024
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  designating  March
   twenty-third as "Pakistan 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  652  of  the  laws  of 2023, 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 eighth, to be
 known as "International Women's  Day",  March  tenth,  to  be  known  as
 "Harriet Tubman Day", MARCH TWENTY-THIRD, TO BE KNOWN AS "PAKISTAN DAY",
 March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam 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  "Work-
 ers'  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-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 Plattsburgh Day" and
 also to be known as "September 11th Remembrance  Day",  September  thir-
 teenth,  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD11838-02-4
 S. 7993                             2
 
 "Friedrich Wilhelm von  Steuben  Memorial  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  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",  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",  November thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", Decem-
 ber third, to be known as "International Day of Persons  with  Disabili-
 ties",  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.