STATE OF NEW YORK
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1594
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to designating
September eleventh as a public holiday
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 24 of the general construction law, as amended by
2 chapter 249 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 24. Public holidays; half-holidays. The term public holiday includes
4 the following days in each year: the first day of January, known as New
5 Year's day; the third Monday of January, known as Dr. Martin Luther
6 King, Jr. day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday;
7 the third Monday in February, known as Washington's birthday; the last
8 Monday in May, known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in June, known
9 as Flag day; the nineteenth day of June, known as Juneteenth; the fourth
10 day of July, known as Independence day; the first Monday in September,
11 known as Labor day; the eleventh day of September, known as September
12 11th Memorial and Remembrance day; the second Monday in October, known
13 as Columbus day; the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day;
14 the fourth Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving day; and the
15 twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day, and if any of such
16 days except Flag day is Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general
17 election day, and each day appointed by the president of the United
18 States or by the governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiv-
19 ing, general fasting and prayer, or other general religious observances.
20 The term half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of each
21 Saturday which is not a public holiday.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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