New York J 1905: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 24, 2026, as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day in the State of New York

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J01905 Summary:

BILL NOJ01905 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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COSPNSRADDABBO, ASHBY, BAILEY, BASKIN, BORRELLO, BOTTCHER, BRISPORT, BROUK, BYNOE, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK,
 CHAN, CLEARE, COMRIE, COONEY, FAHY, FERNANDEZ, GALLIVAN, GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, GRIFFO, HARCKHAM,
 HELMING, HINCHEY, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, LANZA, LIU, MARTINS, MATTERA, MAY, MAYER, MURRAY,
 MYRIE, OBERACKER, O'MARA, ORTT, PALUMBO, PARKER, PERSAUD, RAMOS, RHOADS, RIVERA, ROLISON, RYAN C,
 SALAZAR, SANDERS, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS, STAVISKY, STEC, STEWART-COUSINS,
 SUTTON, TEDISCO, WALCZYK, WEBB, WEBER, WEIK, ZELLNER

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BILL NOJ01905 

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04/16/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

04/21/2026REPORTED TO CALENDAR FOR CONSIDERATION

04/21/2026ADOPTED

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Senate Resolution No. 1905

BY: Senator GOUNARDES

 MEMORIALIZING Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim
 April 24, 2026, as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
 in the State of New York

 WHEREAS, This resolution arises from a sense of human decency and
respect for the Armenian people and their history; and

 WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body to memorialize
Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 24, 2026, as Armenian Genocide
Remembrance Day in the State of New York; and

 WHEREAS, During the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923, one million,
five hundred thousand men, women, and children of Armenian descent, and
hundreds of thousands of Assyrian and Greek descent, lost their lives at
the hands of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in its attempt to systematically
eliminate the Armenian race, while hundreds of thousands had become
homeless and stateless refugees; and

 WHEREAS, April 24, 1915, is globally observed as the commencement of
the Armenian Genocide because the arrest on that day, and subsequent
execution, of several hundred Armenian leaders alerted the world about
the Ottoman Turks' genocidal plan; and

 WHEREAS, Despite Armenians' historic presence, stewardship, and
autonomy in the region, Turkish rulers of the Ottoman Empire subjected
Armenians to severe and unjust persecution and brutality including
widespread and wholesale massacres beginning in the 1890s, most notably
the Hamidian Massacres from 1894 to 1896, and the Adana Massacre of
1909; and

 WHEREAS, By 1923, these crimes against humanity not only resulted in
the killing of unprecedented numbers of innocent people, but also had
the consequence of permanently removing all traces of the Armenians and
other targeted peoples from their historic homelands of more than three
millennia, and enriching the perpetrators with the lands and other
property of the victims of these crimes, including the usurpation of
several thousand churches; and

 WHEREAS, By consistently remembering and forcefully condemning the
atrocities committed against the Armenians, and honoring the survivors
as well as other victims of similar heinous conduct, we guard against
repetition of such acts of genocide and provide the American public with
a greater understanding of history; and

 WHEREAS, This resolution declares that this Legislative Body
deplores the persistent, ongoing efforts by any person, in this country
or abroad, to deny the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide; and

 WHEREAS, The failure of the international community to hold
responsible nations accountable for crimes against humanity results in
travesty of justice, and sets a negative precedent; and

 WHEREAS, The United States is on record as having officially
recognized the Armenian Genocide in the United States government's May
28, 1951, written statement to the International Court of Justice
regarding the Reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, as well as through President Ronald
Reagan's April 22, 1981, Proclamation No. 4838, and by Congressional
legislation, including House of Representatives Joint Resolution 148
adopted on April 8, 1975, and House of Representatives Joint Resolution
247 adopted on September 10, 1984; and

 WHEREAS, Even prior to the Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the United States has