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                                   1116
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to designating April
   twentieth as a day of commemoration to be known  as  "New  York  State
   Constitution Day"

   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
 TWENTIETH, TO BE KNOWN AS "NEW YORK STATE CONSTITUTION DAY", April twen-
 ty-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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 sixth,  to be known as "Women's Equality Day", 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 observances 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, 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 eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
 bilities  History Day", October twenty-seventh, 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", November twenty-sixth, to  be  known  as
 "Sojourner  Truth  Day",  November  thirtieth,  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.