S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6064
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
March 5, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 March
twenty-third as "Pakistan 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-THIRD, TO BE KNOWN AS "PAKISTAN DAY",
March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veterans' 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 "Work-
ers' 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 eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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also to be known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September thir-
teenth, 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 "Disabilities 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.