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                                   2581
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 21, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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  establishing  March
   twenty-fifth  of each year as a day of commemoration known as "We Care
   Remembrance 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-FIFTH, TO BE KNOWN AS "WE CARE REMEM-
 BRANCE 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  "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May to be known
 as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be known as  "Thur-
 good 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  nine-
 teenth,  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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 seven-
 teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
 third Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA  Recog-
 nition  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  Wallen-
 berg  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", Novem-
 ber  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.