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                                   8814
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              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 March
   thirty-first as "Vaping Awareness Day"
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 168-a of the executive law, as
 amended by chapter 652 of the laws  of  2023,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3.  The  following  days  shall be days of commemoration in each year:
 January sixth, to be known as "Haym Salomon  Day",  January  twenty-sev-
 enth, to be known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be
 known  as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B.
 Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to be known as  "Lithuanian  Independ-
 ence  Day",  February  twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans'
 Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day", March  eighth,  to  be
 known  as  "International  Women's  Day",  March  tenth,  to be known as
 "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Vietnam Veter-
 ans' Day", MARCH THIRTY-FIRST, TO BE KNOWN AS  "VAPING  AWARENESS  DAY",
 April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April twenty-seventh,
 to  be  known  as  "Coretta  Scott King Day", April twenty-eighth, to be
 known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May to  be  known
 as  "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be known as "Thur-
 good Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Children's
 Day", June second, to be  known  as  "Italian  Independence  Day",  June
 twelfth,  to  be  known  as "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nine-
 teenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June  twenty-fifth,  to
 be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in July, to be
 known  as  "Abolition  Commemoration  Day",  August twenty-fourth, to be
 known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be  known
 as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
 Plattsburgh  Day"  and  also  to be known as "September 11th Remembrance
 Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also  to
 be  known  as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York", September seven-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
 third Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA  Recog-
 nition  Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due
 to  a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on the
 second Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be  known
 as  "War  of  1812  Day",  the  fourth  Saturday  of September, known as
 "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in  September,  to  be  known  as
 "Gold  Star  Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallen-
 berg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day  in  the
 State  of  New  York",  October eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities
 History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
 Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
 ber twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton  Day",  the  third
 Tuesday  in  November  to  be  known  as  "New York State School-Related
 Professionals Recognition Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as
 "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",  December third, to be known as "International
 Day of Persons with Disabilities", December  seventh,  to  be  known  as
 "Pearl  Harbor  Day",  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day"
 and that day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new  year  to  be
 known as "Asian New Year".
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.