New York S 5909: Establishes September fourth as "Mother Teresa Remembrance Day"

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S05909 Summary:

BILL NOS05909 

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SPONSORLANZA

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Amd §168-a, Exec L

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Establishes September fourth as "Mother Teresa Remembrance Day".

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BILL NOS05909 

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03/03/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5909

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 September
 fourth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Mother Teresa
 Remembrance 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-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
 13 ans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April
 14 twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-
 15 eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May
 16 to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be
 17 known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known
 18 as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence
 19 Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day",
 20 June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-
 21 fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in
 22 July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty-
 23 fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-
 24 sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September fourth, to be

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09883-01-5

 S. 5909 2

 1 known as "Mother Teresa Remembrance Day", September eleventh, to be
 2 known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September
 3 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry
 4 Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
 5 September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
 6 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New York
 7 State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
 8 cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
 9 then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
 10 in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
 11 September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
 12 to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
 13 "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
 14 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
 15 bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
 16 Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
 17 Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
 18 third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
 19 Professionals Recognition Day", November twenty-sixth, to be known as
 20 "Sojourner Truth Day", November thirtieth,