STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2675 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 24, 2023 ___________ 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. LBD06519-01-3S. 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.