S 1688: Designates the fourth Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day".

  
  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.