Bill Text: NY S02587 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes January 30th of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-21 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S02587 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02587-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2587

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 21, 2025
                                       ___________

        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.
                                                                   LBD03897-01-5
        S. 2587                             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.