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                                   3443
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. HARCKHAM, HELMING, ROLISON, WEBB -- 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-fifth as "Medal of Honor 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 "MEDAL OF  HONOR
 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 "Thurgood Mars-
 hall 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

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07162-01-5
              

 S. 3443                             2
 
 "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.