STATE OF NEW YORK
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1288
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 "International Snowmo-
bile Ride 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", the second Saturday in February to be known
8 as "International Snowmobile Ride Day", February fifteenth, to be known
9 as "Susan B. Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuani-
10 an Independence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War
11 Veterans' Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day", March
12 eighth, to be known as "International Women's Day", March tenth, to be
13 known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
14 nam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day",
15 April twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April
16 twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
17 in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to
18 be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be
19 known as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Inde-
20 pendence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition
21 Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June
22 twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second
23 Monday in July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August
24 twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
25 ty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem-
2 ber 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John
3 Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New
4 York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von
5 Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New
6 York 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, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
11 to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
12 "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
13 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
14 bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
15 Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
16 Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
17 third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
18 Professionals Recognition Day", November twenty-sixth, to be known as
19 "Sojourner Truth Day", November thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley
20 Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International Day of
21 Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as "Pearl
22 Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and that
23 day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be known as
24 "Asian New Year".
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
