A 9161: Establishes September tenth as "Charlie Kirk Day for Free Expression and Debate".

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9161 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY October 17, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BOLOGNA -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing September tenth as a day of commemoration to be known as "Charlie Kirk Day for Free Expression and Debate" 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", 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 22 July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty- 23 fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty- 24 sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September tenth, to be EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13773-01-5 
 A. 9161 2 1 known as "Charlie Kirk Day for Free Expression and Debate", 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, to be known as "Native-American Day", the last 12 Sunday in September, to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October 13 fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be 14 known as "New Netherland Day in the State of New York", October eigh- 15 teenth, to be known as "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-sev- 16 enth, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be 17 known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as 18 "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in November to be known 19 as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", Novem- 20 ber twenty-sixth, to be known as "Sojourner Truth Day", November thirti- 21 eth, to be known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known 22 as "International Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, 23 to be known as "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as 24 "Bastogne Day" and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as 25 new year to be known as "Asian New Year". 26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.