Bill Text: NY S01688 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the fourth Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day".

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-27 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S01688 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01688-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1688

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS, ADDABBO, BROUK, GRIFFO, HELMING, 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 designating the fourth
          Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration 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",  the  fourth  Thursday  in March, to be known as
    13  "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known  as
    14  "Vietnam  Veterans'  Day",  April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition
    15  Day", April twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Coretta  Scott  King  Day",
    16  April  twenty-eighth,  to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first
    17  Tuesday in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day",  May  seven-
    18  teenth,  to  be  known  as  "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in
    19  June, to be known as "Children's Day",  June  second,  to  be  known  as
    20  "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans
    21  Recognition  Day",  June  nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom
    22  Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day",  the
    23  second  Monday  in  July,  to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day",
    24  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.
                                                                   LBD01706-01-5
        S. 1688                             2

     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.