Bill Text: NY S06203 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates September 11th as a public holiday to be known as September 11th Memorial and Remembrance Day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S06203 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06203-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6203

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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 designating
          September eleventh as a public holiday

          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 249 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 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  last
     8  Monday  in  May, known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in June, known
     9  as Flag day; the nineteenth day of June, known as Juneteenth; the fourth
    10  day of July, known as Independence day; the first Monday  in  September,
    11  known  as  Labor  day; the eleventh day of September, known as September
    12  11th Memorial and Remembrance day; the second Monday in  October,  known
    13  as  Columbus  day; the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day;
    14  the fourth Thursday in November, known  as  Thanksgiving  day;  and  the
    15  twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day, and if any of such
    16  days  except  Flag  day is Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general
    17  election day, and each day appointed by  the  president  of  the  United
    18  States  or  by the governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiv-
    19  ing, general fasting and prayer, or other general religious observances.
    20  The term half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of  each
    21  Saturday which is not a public holiday.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10637-01-3