New York S 3443: Designates March 25, "Medal of Honor Day", as a day of commemoration

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S03443 Summary:

BILL NOS03443 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04676

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SPONSORHARCKHAM

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COSPNSRASHBY, CHAN, COONEY, HELMING, MURRAY, O'MARA, ROLISON, WEBB, WEBER

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §168-a, Exec L

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Designates March 25, "Medal of Honor Day", as a day of commemoration.

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BILL NOS03443 

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01/27/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

03/04/20251ST REPORT CAL.474

03/05/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/10/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/25/2025PASSED SENATE

03/25/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/25/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/20/20261ST REPORT CAL.116

01/21/20262ND REPORT CAL.

01/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/25/2026PASSED SENATE

03/25/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/25/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3443

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, HELMING, ROLISON, 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 March
 twenty-fifth as "Medal of Honor 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", March twenty-fifth to be known as "Medal of Honor
 13 Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veterans' Day", April
 14 ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April twenty-seventh, to be
 15 known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-eighth, to be known as
 16 "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May to be known as "New
 17 York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be known as "Thurgood Mars-
 18 hall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Children's Day",
 19 June second, to be known as "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to
 20 be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be
 21 known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as
 22 "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in July, to be known as
 23 "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty-fourth, to be known as
 24 "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be known as

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07162-01-5

 S. 3443 2

 1 "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
 2 Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September 11th Remembrance
 3 Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also to
 4 be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York", September seven-
 5 teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
 6 third Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recog-
 7 nition Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due
 8 to a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on the
 9 second Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be known
 10 as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of September, known as
 11 "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September, to be known as
 12 "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallen-
 13 berg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherl