Assembly adopts ceremonial resolutions designating Census Day, Autism Acceptance Month and other proclamations

The New York State Assembly adopted a set of ceremonial resolutions on the floor asking Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim commemorative days and months, including April 1, 2025 as Census Day and April 2025 as Autism Acceptance Month. Each resolution was adopted by voice vote.

The measures matter because some sponsors framed them as public-engagement prompts or recognition of communities and federal processes that affect state funding and services. Assembly sponsors used brief floor remarks to summarize why the proclamations matter; there was no extended debate and no roll-call recorded votes during the proceedings captured in the transcript.

Assemblymember Days offered the lead floor remarks on the resolution memorializing the governor to proclaim April 1, 2025 as Census Day. Days said the census "is personal for me" and argued the census affects federal funding, telling colleagues, "If 500,000 people are not counted in the next census, that will cost our state $1,400,000,000 in funding." He urged outreach to ensure "every New Yorker is counted from the rural areas to the urban areas." The resolution (Assembly No. 277)…