STATE OF NEW YORK
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6049
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CHANG, NOVAKHOV, BROOK-KRASNY, NORBER -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 168-a of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 542 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. The following days shall be days of commemoration in each year:
5 January sixth, to be known as "Haym Salomon Day", January twenty-sev-
6 enth, to be known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be
7 known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B.
8 Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independ-
9 ence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans'
10 Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day", March eighth, to be
11 known as "International Women's Day", March tenth, to be known as
12 "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
13 ans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April
14 twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-
15 eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in
16 May, to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be
17 known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known
18 as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence
19 Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day",
20 June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-
21 fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in
22 July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty-
23 fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-
24 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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1 known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September
2 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry
3 Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
4 September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
5 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New York
6 State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
7 cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
8 then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
9 in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
10 September, to be known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in
11 September, to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be
12 known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October seventh, to be known as "Octo-
13 ber 7th Remembrance Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Nether-
14 land Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as
15 "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as
16 "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for
17 Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton
18 Day", the third Tuesday in November, to be known as "New York State
19 School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", November twenty-sixth, to
20 be known as "Sojourner Truth Day", November thirtieth, to be known as
21 "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International
22 Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as
23 "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
24 and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
25 known as "Asian New Year".
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
