Bill Text: NY A01281 | 2017-2018 | 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) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A01281 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01281-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1281
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, 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
    25  Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry  Day"
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 1281                             2
     1  and  also  to  be  known  as  "Uncle  Sam Day in the State of New York",
     2  September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
     3  Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
     4  State  POW/MIA  Recognition  Day"  except  if such date of commemoration
     5  cannot be observed due to a religious holiday,  such  observances  shall
     6  then  be  conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
     7  in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth  Saturday  of
     8  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
     9  to  be  known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
    10  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
    11  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
    12  bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Theodore
    13  Roosevelt  Day",  November  ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
    14  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    15  third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State  School-Related
    16  Professionals  Recognition  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as
    17  "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International
    18  Day  of  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December seventh, to be known as
    19  "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known  as  "Bastogne  Day"
    20  and  that  day  of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
    21  known as "Asian New Year".
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.