Bill Text: NY S08813 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates November fourth as "Parent and Guardian Appreciation Day".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-15 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S08813 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S08813-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8813 IN SENATE March 15, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 November fourth as "Parent and Guardian Appreciation 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 652 of the laws of 2023, 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 eighth, to be 11 known as "International Women's Day", March tenth, to be known as 12 "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter- 13 ans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April 14 twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty- 15 eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May 16 to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be 17 known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known 18 as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence 19 Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day", 20 June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty- 21 fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in 22 July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty- 23 fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty- 24 sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be 25 known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September 26 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry 27 Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York", 28 September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14899-01-4S. 8813 2 1 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New York 2 State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration 3 cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall 4 then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday 5 in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of 6 September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September, 7 to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as 8 "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland 9 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa- 10 bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore 11 Roosevelt Day", November fourth, to be known as "Parent and Guardian 12 Appreciation Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance 13 Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the 14 third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related 15 Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be known as 16 "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International 17 Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as 18 "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" 19 and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be 20 known as "Asian New Year". 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
