New York S 2587: Establishes "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution"

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S02587 Summary:

BILL NOS02587 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04932

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SPONSORMAYER

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COSPNSRLIU, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §168-a, Exec L

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

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BILL NOS02587 

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01/21/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

03/11/20251ST REPORT CAL.529

03/12/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/13/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/19/2025PASSED SENATE

03/19/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/19/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

03/05/20261ST REPORT CAL.461

03/09/20262ND REPORT CAL.

03/10/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/19/2026PASSED SENATE

03/19/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/19/2026referred to governmental operations

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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"