NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A4349
SPONSOR: Reyes TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to the designation of
International Women's Day as a day of commemoration
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To establish an official day that commemorates the achievements of women
through the designation of March eighth as International Women's Day.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one amends subdivision 3 of section 168-a of the executive law
to declare the eighth of March a day of commemoration in each year, to
be known as International Women's Day.
Section two establishes the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
International Women's Day is a global day celebrated on March 8th which
honors the social, economic, cultural and political'achievements of
women. Celebrated annually since 1911, International Women's Day marks a
call to action for accelerating gender parity and promotes women's
rights. Currently, 27 counties have officially adopted Women's Day as a
national holiday, and it is widely observed and commemorated in several
others.
The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention
in the United States leading to the ultimate success of ensuring Ameri-
can women have the right to vote. Given New York State's rich history as
the birthplace of the women's suffrage movement, it is time for New York
to officially recognize International Women's Day.
This legislation will commemorate our state's historic and current lead-
ership in the advancement of women's rights by recognizing March 8th,
International Women's Day, as a day of commemoration each year.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
2022 - Referred to Governmental Operations
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4349
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the designation of
International Women's Day as a day of commemoration
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 237 of the laws of 2020, 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 eleventh, to be
25 known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry
2 Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
3 September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
4 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New York
5 State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
6 cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
7 then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
8 in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
9 September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
10 to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
11 "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
12 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
13 bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
14 Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
15 Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
16 third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
17 Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be known as
18 "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International
19 Day of Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as
20 "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
21 and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
22 known as "Asian New Year".
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
