STATE OF NEW YORK
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7672
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STERN, GIBBS, DeSTEFANO, LEMONDES, ANGELINO,
SLATER, BRABENEC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. K. BROWN -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing September
twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Veteran
Suicide Awareness and 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 May
16 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-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be
2 known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September
3 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry
4 Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
5 September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
6 Memorial Day", September twenty-second, to be known as "Veteran Suicide
7 Awareness and Remembrance Day", the third Friday in September to be
8 known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of
9 commemoration cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such obser-
10 vances shall then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the
11 last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth
12 Saturday of September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday
13 in September, to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to
14 be known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as
15 "New Netherland Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be
16 known as "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known
17 as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for
18 Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton
19 Day", the third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State
20 School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", November twenty-sixth, to
21 be known as "Sojourner Truth Day", November thirtieth, to be known as
22 "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International
23 Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as
24 "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
25 and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
26 known as "Asian New Year".
27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
