STATE OF NEW YORK
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2587
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. MAYER, WEBB -- 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 January
thirtieth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Fred Kore-
matsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution"
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", January thirtieth, to
7 be known as "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitu-
8 tion", February fourth, to be known as "Rosa Parks Day", February
9 fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B. Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to
10 be known as "Lithuanian Independence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be
11 known as "Gulf War Veterans' Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski
12 Day", March eighth, to be known as "International Women's Day", March
13 tenth, to be known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be
14 known as "Vietnam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW
15 Recognition Day", April twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott
16 King Day", April twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day",
17 the first Tuesday in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day",
18 May seventeenth, to be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first
19 Sunday in June, to be known as "Children's Day", June second, to be
20 known as "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women
21 Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth
22 Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans'
23 Day", the second Monday in July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration
24 Day", August twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day",
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 August twenty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September
2 eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be
3 known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be
4 known as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the
5 State of New York", September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich
6 Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be
7 known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of
8 commemoration cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such obser-
9 vances shall then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the
10 last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth
11 Saturday of September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday
12 in September, to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to
13 be known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as
14 "New Netherland Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be
15 known as "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known
16 as "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.
