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                                   1811
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
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 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 May ninth
   as "Opioid 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 542 of the laws  of  2024,  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", 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 NINTH, TO BE  KNOWN  AS
 "OPIOID  AWARENESS DAY", May seventeenth, to be known as "Thurgood Mars-
 hall  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  nineteenth,  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05328-01-5
              

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 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-
 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 twenty-sixth, to  be  known  as
 "Sojourner  Truth  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.