Assembly Bill A9161

                             
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                                   9161
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 17, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. BOLOGNA -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing September
   tenth as a day of commemoration to be known as "Charlie Kirk  Day  for
   Free Expression and Debate"

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 168-a of  the  executive  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  542  of  the  laws  of 2024, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. The following days shall be days of  commemoration  in  each  year:
 January  sixth,  to  be known as "Haym Salomon Day", January twenty-sev-
 enth, to be known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be
 known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan  B.
 Anthony  Day",  February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independ-
 ence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as  "Gulf  War  Veterans'
 Day",  March  fourth,  to be known as "Pulaski Day", March eighth, to be
 known as "International Women's  Day",  March  tenth,  to  be  known  as
 "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
 ans'  Day",  April  ninth,  to  be known as "POW Recognition Day", April
 twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day",  April  twenty-
 eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May
 to  be  known  as  "New  York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be
 known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be  known
 as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence
 Day", June twelfth, to be known as  "Women  Veterans  Recognition  Day",
 June  nineteenth,  to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-
 fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second  Monday  in
 July,  to  be  known  as  "Abolition  Commemoration Day", August twenty-
 fourth, to be known as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",  August  twenty-
 sixth,  to  be  known  as "Women's Equality Day", SEPTEMBER TENTH, TO BE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 A. 9161                             2
 
 KNOWN AS "CHARLIE KIRK DAY FOR FREE EXPRESSION  AND  DEBATE",  September
 eleventh,  to  be  known  as  "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be
 known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth,  to  be
 known  as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the
 State of New York", September seventeenth, to  be  known  as  "Friedrich
 Wilhelm  von  Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be
 known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of
 commemoration cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such obser-
 vances shall then be conducted on the second Friday  of  September,  the
 last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth
 Saturday  of  September,  TO BE known as "Native-American Day", the last
 Sunday in September, to be known as "Gold Star  Mothers'  Day",  October
 fifth,  to  be  known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be
 known as "New Netherland Day in the State of New  York",  October  eigh-
 teenth,  to  be known as "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-sev-
 enth, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day",  November  ninth,  to  be
 known  as  "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as
 "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in November to be  known
 as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", Novem-
 ber twenty-sixth, to be known as "Sojourner Truth Day", November thirti-
 eth,  to be known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known
 as "International Day of Persons with Disabilities",  December  seventh,
 to  be  known  as "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as
 "Bastogne Day" and that day of the Asian lunar  calendar  designated  as
 new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.