Bill Text: NY S02675 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day".

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-26 - referred to governmental operations [S02675 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02675-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2675

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  FERNANDEZ,  GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM -- 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 August
          thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Overdose
          Awareness 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 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  tenth,  to  be
    11  known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
    12  nam  Veterans'  Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day",
    13  April twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta  Scott  King  Day",  April
    14  twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
    15  in  May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to
    16  be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday  in  June,  to  be
    17  known  as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Inde-
    18  pendence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans  Recognition
    19  Day",  June  nineteenth,  to  be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June
    20  twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean  War  Veterans'  Day",  the  second
    21  Monday  in  July,  to  be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August
    22  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
    23  ty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", August thirty-first, to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06519-01-3
        S. 2675                             2

     1  be known as "Overdose Awareness Day", September eleventh, to be known as
     2  "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to  be  known  as  "September  11th
     3  Remembrance  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day"
     4  and  also  to  be  known  as  "Uncle  Sam Day in the State of New York",
     5  September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
     6  Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
     7  State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except  if  such  date  of  commemoration
     8  cannot  be  observed  due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
     9  then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the  last  Saturday
    10  in  September,  to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
    11  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
    12  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be  known  as
    13  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
    14  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
    15  bilities  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
    16  Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as  "Witness  for  Tolerance
    17  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    18  third  Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
    19  Professionals Recognition Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as
    20  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",  December third, to be known as "International
    21  Day of Persons with Disabilities", December  seventh,  to  be  known  as
    22  "Pearl  Harbor  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
    23  and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new  year  to  be
    24  known as "Asian New Year".
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.