Bill Text: NY A01197 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the designation of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, as a public holiday.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A01197 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01197-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1197
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to the  desig-
          nation of Diwali as a public holiday
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 24 of the general construction law, as  amended  by
     2  chapter 347 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 24. Public holidays; half-holidays. The term public holiday includes
     4  the following days in each year:  the first day of January, known as New
     5  Year's  day;  the  third  Monday  of January, known as Dr. Martin Luther
     6  King, Jr. day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday;
     7  the third Monday in February, known as Washington's birthday;  the  last
     8  Monday  in  May, known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in June, known
     9  as Flag day; the fourth day of July,  known  as  Independence  day;  the
    10  first  Monday  in  September,  known  as Labor day; the second Monday in
    11  October, known as Columbus day; the eleventh day of November,  known  as
    12  Veterans'  day;  the  fourth Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving
    13  day; [and] the twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day; and
    14  the fifteenth day of the Hindu  lunisolar  month  of  Kartik,  known  as
    15  Lakshmi  Puja,  or the Hindu festival of lights, and if any of such days
    16  except Flag day  is  Sunday,  the  next  day  thereafter;  each  general
    17  election  day,  and  each  day  appointed by the president of the United
    18  States or by the governor of this state as a day of  general  thanksgiv-
    19  ing, general fasting and prayer, or other general religious observances.
    20  The  term half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of each
    21  Saturday which is not a public holiday.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    23  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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