Bill Text: NY S05587 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates July 25, "Medal of Honor Day", as a day of commemoration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-21 - referred to governmental operations [S05587 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05587-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5587
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 18, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- 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 July twen-
          ty-fifth as "Medal of Honor 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 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",  July  twenty-
    21  fifth,  to be known as "Medal of Honor Day", August twenty-fourth, to be
    22  known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be  known
    23  as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
    24  Plattsburgh  Day"  and  also  to be known as "September 11th Remembrance
    25  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also  to
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 5587                             2
     1  be  known  as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York", September seven-
     2  teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
     3  third Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA  Recog-
     4  nition  Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due
     5  to a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on  the
     6  second  Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be known
     7  as "War of 1812  Day",  the  fourth  Saturday  of  September,  known  as
     8  "Native-American  Day",  the  last  Sunday  in September, to be known as
     9  "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as  "Raoul  Wallen-
    10  berg  Day",  October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day in the
    11  State of New York", October eighteenth, to  be  known  as  "Disabilities
    12  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
    13  Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
    14  ber  twelfth,  to  be  known  as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third
    15  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.