Bill Text: NY S04152 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes September twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as Veteran Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S04152 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S04152-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4152

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 3, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. SANDERS, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BORRELLO, BROUK, CANZONER-
          I-FITZPATRICK, COMRIE, HARCKHAM, HELMING, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, LIU,
          MATTERA, MYRIE, O'MARA, PERSAUD, ROLISON, SKOUFIS, STEC, WEIK --  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 September
          twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Veteran
          Suicide Awareness and Remembrance 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 452 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", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
    13  ans' Day", April ninth, to be known  as  "POW  Recognition  Day",  April
    14  twenty-seventh,  to  be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-
    15  eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May
    16  to be known as "New York State Teacher  Day",  May  seventeenth,  to  be
    17  known  as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known
    18  as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as  "Italian  Independence
    19  Day",  June  twelfth,  to  be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day",
    20  June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day",  June  twenty-
    21  fifth,  to  be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07654-01-5
        S. 4152                             2

     1  July, to be known  as  "Abolition  Commemoration  Day",  August  twenty-
     2  fourth,  to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-
     3  sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to  be
     4  known  as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September
     5  11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John  Barry
     6  Day"  and  also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
     7  September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
     8  Memorial  Day", September twenty-second, to be known as "Veteran Suicide
     9  Awareness and Remembrance Day", the third  Friday  in  September  to  be
    10  known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of
    11  commemoration cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such obser-
    12  vances  shall  then  be conducted on the second Friday of September, the
    13  last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth
    14  Saturday of September, known as "Native-American Day", the  last  Sunday
    15  in September, to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to
    16  be  known  as  "Raoul  Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as
    17  "New Netherland Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be
    18  known as "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known
    19  as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for
    20  Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    21  Day", the third Tuesday in November to  be  known  as  "New  York  State
    22  School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", November twenty-sixth, to
    23  be  known  as  "Sojourner Truth Day", November thirtieth, to be known as
    24  "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International
    25  Day  of  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December seventh, to be known as
    26  "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known  as  "Bastogne  Day"
    27  and  that  day  of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
    28  known as "Asian New Year".
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.