Bill Text: NY S08815 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates April eighth as "Co-Occurring Disorders Awareness Day".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-15 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S08815 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08815-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8815

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 15, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 designating April
          eighth as "Co-Occurring Disorders 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 652 of the laws  of  2023,  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  eighth,  to  be
    11  known  as  "International  Women's  Day",  March  tenth,  to be known as
    12  "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
    13  ans' Day", April eighth, to be known as "Co-Occurring  Disorders  Aware-
    14  ness  Day",  April  ninth,  to  be known as "POW Recognition Day", April
    15  twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day",  April  twenty-
    16  eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May
    17  to  be  known  as  "New  York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be
    18  known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be  known
    19  as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence
    20  Day", June twelfth, to be known as  "Women  Veterans  Recognition  Day",
    21  June  nineteenth,  to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-
    22  fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second  Monday  in
    23  July,  to  be  known  as  "Abolition  Commemoration Day", August twenty-
    24  fourth, to be known as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",  August  twenty-
    25  sixth,  to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be
    26  known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as  "September
    27  11th  Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry
    28  Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of  New  York",

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14902-01-4
        S. 8815                             2

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