Bill Text: NY A10831 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the second Monday in July each year as a day of commemoration, to be known as Abolition Commemoration day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-10-07 - SIGNED CHAP.237 [A10831 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10831-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10831

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 17, 2020
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        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pretlow) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  the  designation  of
          Abolition Commemoration day as a day 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 twenty-sev-
     6  enth, to be known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be
     7  known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan  B.
     8  Anthony  Day",  February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independ-
     9  ence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as  "Gulf  War  Veterans'
    10  Day",  March  fourth,  to  be known as "Pulaski Day", March tenth, to be
    11  known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
    12  nam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW  Recognition  Day",
    13  April  twenty-seventh,  to  be  known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April
    14  twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
    15  in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth,  to
    16  be  known  as  "Thurgood  Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be
    17  known as "Children's Day", June second, to be known  as  "Italian  Inde-
    18  pendence  Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition
    19  Day", June nineteenth, to be known as  "Juneteenth  Freedom  Day",  June
    20  twenty-fifth,  to  be  known  as  "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second
    21  Monday in July, to be known as  "Abolition  Commemoration  Day",  August
    22  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
    23  ty-sixth,  to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to
    24  be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem-
    25  ber 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be  known  as  "John
    26  Barry  Day"  and  also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New
    27  York", September seventeenth, to be  known  as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von
    28  Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17000-01-0
        A. 10831                            2

     1  York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
     2  cannot  be  observed  due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
     3  then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the  last  Saturday
     4  in  September,  to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
     5  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
     6  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be  known  as
     7  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
     8  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
     9  bilities  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
    10  Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as  "Witness  for  Tolerance
    11  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    12  third  Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
    13  Professionals Recognition Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as
    14  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",  December third, to be known as "International
    15  Day of Persons with Disabilities", December  seventh,  to  be  known  as
    16  "Pearl  Harbor  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
    17  and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new  year  to  be
    18  known as "Asian New Year".
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.