New York S 1688: Relates to designating the fourth Thursday in March as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day"

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S01688 Summary:

BILL NOS01688 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09130

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSRADDABBO, BORRELLO, BROUK, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, GRIFFO, HELMING, MURRAY, ROLISON, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §168-a, Exec L

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

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BILL NOS01688 

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/21/20251ST REPORT CAL.113

01/22/20252ND REPORT CAL.

01/27/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/27/2025PASSED SENATE

03/27/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/27/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/20/20261ST REPORT CAL.114

01/21/20262ND REPORT CAL.

01/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/30/2026PASSED SENATE

03/30/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/30/2026referred to governmental operations

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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 fift