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                                    487
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. FERNANDEZ, MURRAY, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BORRELLO, CANZON-
   ERI-FITZPATRICK, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES, GRIFFO, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
   JACKSON, MARTINEZ, MAYER, OBERACKER, RIVERA, WEBB, WEBER, WEIK -- 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:
 
   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 seventeenth, to be
 known as "Thurgood 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  nineteenth,  to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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", AUGUST THIRTY-FIRST, TO BE
 KNOWN  AS  "OVERDOSE  AWARENESS 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  seventeenth,  to  be  known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known  as  "New  York
 State  POW/MIA  Recognition  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 Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
 Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
 bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Theodore
 Roosevelt  Day",  November  ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
 Day", November 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.