New York S 10005: Relates to establishing June twentieth as Edie Windsor Day

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S10005 Summary:

BILL NOS10005 

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SPONSORBOTTCHER

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Amd §168-a, Exec L

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Relates to establishing June twentieth as Edie Windsor Day.

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BILL NOS10005 

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04/22/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 10005

 IN SENATE

 April 22, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. BOTTCHER -- 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 June
 twentieth as a day of commemoration to be known as "Edie Windsor 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 twenti-
 21 eth, to be known as "Edie Windsor Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known
 22 as "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
 25 "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
 26 Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September 11th Remembrance
 27 Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also to
 28 be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York", September seven-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07387-01-5

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 1 teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
 2 third Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recog-
 3 nition Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due
 4 to a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on the
 5 second Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be known
 6 as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of September, to be known as
 7 "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September, to be known as
 8 "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallen-
 9 berg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day in the
 10 State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities
 11 History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
 12 Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
 13 ber twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third
 14 Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
 15 Professionals Recognition Day", November twenty-sixth, to be known as
 16 "Sojourner Truth Day", November thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley
 17 Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "Interna