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                                   6580
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 17, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  CHAN  --  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  October
   seventh  of  each year as a day of commemoration known as "October 7th
   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-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 eleventh, to  be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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,  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 SEVENTH, TO BE KNOWN AS  "OCTO-
 BER  7TH REMEMBRANCE DAY", October eleventh, to be known as "New Nether-
 land 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.