Bill Text: NY A00421 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to designating January 13th as Korean-American Day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A00421 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00421-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           421
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, D'URSO, KIM -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designation of days of
          commemoration
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 168-a of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  481  of  the  laws  of 2012, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. The following days shall be days of  commemoration  in  each  year:
     5  January sixth, to be known as "Haym Salomon Day", January thirteenth, to
     6  be  known  as "Korean-American Day", January twenty-seventh, to be known
     7  as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be  known  as  "Rosa
     8  Parks  Day",  February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B. Anthony Day",
     9  February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independence Day", Febru-
    10  ary twenty-eighth, to be  known  as  "Gulf  War  Veterans'  Day",  March
    11  fourth,  to  be  known  as  "Pulaski  Day",  March tenth, to be known as
    12  "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
    13  ans' Day", April ninth, to be known  as  "POW  Recognition  Day",  April
    14  twenty-seventh,  to  be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-
    15  eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May
    16  to be known as "New York State Teacher  Day",  May  seventeenth,  to  be
    17  known  as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known
    18  as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as  "Italian  Independence
    19  Day",  June  twelfth,  to  be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day",
    20  June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day",  June  twenty-
    21  fifth,  to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", August twenty-fourth,
    22  to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to  be
    23  known  as  "Women's  Equality  Day",  September eleventh, to be known as
    24  "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to  be  known  as  "September  11th
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02695-01-9
        A. 421                              2
     1  Remembrance  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day"
     2  and also to be known as "Uncle Sam  Day  in  the  State  of  New  York",
     3  September  seventeenth,  to  be  known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
     4  Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
     5  State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except  if  such  date  of  commemoration
     6  cannot  be  observed  due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
     7  then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the  last  Saturday
     8  in  September,  to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
     9  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
    10  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be  known  as
    11  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
    12  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
    13  bilities  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
    14  Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as  "Witness  for  Tolerance
    15  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    16  third  Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
    17  Professionals Recognition Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as
    18  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",  December third, to be known as "International
    19  Day of Persons with Disabilities", December  seventh,  to  be  known  as
    20  "Pearl  Harbor  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
    21  and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new  year  to  be
    22  known as "Asian New Year".
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.