STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7370 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE September 10, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RATH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to commemorating consti- tution 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", 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", the second 21 Monday in July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August 22 twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen- 23 ty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to 24 be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem- 25 ber 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01664-01-1

S. 7370 2 1 Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New 2 York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von 3 Steuben Memorial Day" and also to be known as "Constitution Day", the 4 third Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recog- 5 nition Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due 6 to a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on the 7 second Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be known 8 as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of September, known as 9 "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September, to be known as 10 "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallen- 11 berg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day in the 12 State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities 13 History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt 14 Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem- 15 ber twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third 16 Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related 17 Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be known as 18 "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International 19 Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as 20 "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" 21 and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be 22 known as "Asian New Year". 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Commemorates constitution day

What's Happening

Why It Matters