Bill Text: NY S01847 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the fourth Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day".

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-24 - referred to governmental operations [S01847 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01847-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1847

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating the fourth
          Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day"

          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 237 of the laws  of  2020,  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", the fourth Thursday in March, to be known
    12  "Tuskegee  Airmen Commemoration Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as
    13  "Vietnam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known  as  "POW  Recognition
    14  Day",  April  twenty-seventh,  to  be known as "Coretta Scott King Day",
    15  April twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day",  the  first
    16  Tuesday  in  May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seven-
    17  teenth, to be known as "Thurgood Marshall  Day",  the  first  Sunday  in
    18  June,  to  be  known  as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as
    19  "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans
    20  Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known  as  "Juneteenth  Freedom
    21  Day",  June twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the
    22  second Monday in July, to be known  as  "Abolition  Commemoration  Day",
    23  August  twenty-fourth,  to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian Independence Day",
    24  August twenty-sixth, to be known as "Women's  Equality  Day",  September
    25  eleventh,  to  be  known  as  "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05265-01-1
        S. 1847                             2

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