Bill Text: NY A06603 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6603

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to designating the month of May as "Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A06603 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06603-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6603

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        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 designating the  month
          of May as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  168-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 168-b. Designation of months of commemoration. 1. A month of commem-
     4  oration  is a calendar month so designated by this section or a calendar
     5  month in any one year so designated by a proclamation of the governor or
     6  resolution of the senate and assembly jointly adopted.
     7    2. A month of commemoration shall not constitute a holiday or half-ho-
     8  liday but shall be a month set aside in recognition and special honor of
     9  a person, persons, group, ideal or goal.
    10    3. The following month shall be a month of commemoration in each year:
    11  May, to be known as "Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month".
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01092-01-3