Bill Text: NY S03353 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates the tenth day of March of each year as a public holiday, to be known as Harriet Tubman day.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S03353 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S03353-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3353
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 1, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. HASSELL-THOMPSON, ADAMS, ADDABBO, BRESLIN, DIAZ,
DILAN, HANNON, KRUEGER, LANZA, MONTGOMERY, NOZZOLIO, PARKER, PERKINS,
RANZENHOFER, SAMPSON, SAVINO, STAVISKY, STEWART-COUSINS, VALESKY --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to the desig-
nation of Harriet Tubman day
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 S 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 TENTH
8 DAY OF MARCH, KNOWN AS HARRIET TUBMAN DAY; the last Monday in May, known
9 as Memorial day; the second Sunday in June, known as Flag day; the
10 fourth day of July, known as Independence day; the first Monday in
11 September, known as Labor day; the second Monday in October, known as
12 Columbus day; the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day; the
13 fourth Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving day; and the twenty-
14 fifth day of December, known as Christmas day, and if any of such days
15 except Flag day is Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general
16 election day, and each day appointed by the president of the United
17 States or by the governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiv-
18 ing, general fasting and prayer, or other general religious observances.
19 The term half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of each
20 Saturday which is not a public holiday.
21 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
22 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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