NY J01540

Requests Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim August 26, 2026, as Women's Equality Day in New York State, coinciding with National Women's Equality Day

Commemorates the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which granted American women the right to vote after being first introduced in Congress in 1878

Recognizes the women's suffrage movement that began at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, where women drafted a Declaration of Sentiments proclaiming equal rights

Acknowledges Jeannette Rankin of Montana as the first American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916, four years before women could vote nationally

Celebrates current achievements of American women in business, government, law, science, medicine, the arts, and education, noting women-owned businesses account for nearly half of all privately held firms