New York S 2581: Establishes March twenty-fifth as "We Care Remembrance Day"

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S02581 Summary:

BILL NOS02581 

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Establishes March twenty-fifth as "We Care Remembrance Day".

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BILL NOS02581 

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01/21/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2581

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 March
 twenty-fifth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "We Care
 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-fifth, to be known as "We Care Remem-
 13 brance Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veterans' Day",
 14 April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April twenty-seventh,
 15 to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-eighth, to be
 16 known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May to be known
 17 as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be known as "Thur-
 18 good Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Children's
 19 Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence Day", June
 20 twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nine-
 21 teenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth, to
 22 be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in July, to be
 23 known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty-fourth, to be
 24 known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be known

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06866-01-5

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 1 as "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 Netherland Day in the
 14 State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities
 15 History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
 16 Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
 17 ber twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third
 18 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 thirtiet