Bill Text: NY J01972 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 9, 2024, as West Point Day in New York State

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 42-21)

Status: (Passed) 2024-03-19 - ADOPTED [J01972 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-J01972-Introduced.html

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Senate Resolution No. 1972

BY: Senator SKOUFIS

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        April 9, 2024, as West Point Day in New York State

  WHEREAS, This Legislative Body is  justly  proud  to  celebrate  the
establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point and to
call upon Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 9, 2024, as West Point
Day in the State of New York; and

  WHEREAS, By an act of Congress, on March 16, 1802, the United States
Military  Academy  was established within the borders of New York State,
on the banks of the Hudson River; and

  WHEREAS, The Academy and its graduates are an integral part  of  the
proud history of this State and Nation; and

  WHEREAS,  The  leadership  and sacrifices of the members of the Long
Grey Line have helped this country withstand countless  threats  to  our
cherished democratic way of life; and

  WHEREAS, The alumni have excelled not only on the battlefield but in
many fields of endeavor; and

  WHEREAS,  The Academy continues to provide our country with able and
dedicated future leaders; and

  WHEREAS, Its scenic campus is a mecca each  year  for  thousands  of
visitors from across our State, continent, and other countries; and

  WHEREAS,  The  United States Military Academy is in the forefront of
our State's outstanding institutions of higher learning; and

  WHEREAS, Over seventy years ago, the late James T. McNamara, then  a
member  of  the  New  York State Assembly, and a member of the Academy's
class of 1939, was the author of the  State  Legislature's  first  "West
Point Day" Resolution; and

  WHEREAS,  For  decades, our Nation has enjoyed the legacy of freedom
and the United States Military  Academy  at  West  Point  has  played  a
vitally significant role in the maintenance of peace and freedom; and

  WHEREAS,   The  members  of  this  Legislative  Body  are  proud  to
commemorate this event, marking April 9, 2024, as West Point Day in  New
York State; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
celebrate the establishment of the United  States  Military  Academy  at
West Point and to memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 9,
2024, as West Point Day in New York State; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of  New
York.