STATE OF NEW YORK
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5214
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
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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