Bill Text: NY S08816 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates May ninth as "Opioid Awareness Day".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-15 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S08816 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08816-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8816

                    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 May ninth
          as "Opioid 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 ninth, to be known  as  "POW  Recognition  Day",  April
    14  twenty-seventh,  to  be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-
    15  eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May
    16  to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May ninth, to be  known  as
    17  "Opioid  Awareness Day", May seventeenth, to be known as "Thurgood Mars-
    18  hall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known  as  "Children's  Day",
    19  June second, to be known as "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to
    20  be  known  as  "Women  Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be
    21  known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth,  to  be  known  as
    22  "Korean  War  Veterans'  Day", the second Monday in July, to be known as
    23  "Abolition Commemoration Day", August  twenty-fourth,  to  be  known  as
    24  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",  August  twenty-sixth,  to  be  known as
    25  "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known  as  "Battle  of
    26  Plattsburgh  Day"  and  also  to be known as "September 11th Remembrance
    27  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also  to
    28  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.
                                                                   LBD14903-01-4
        S. 8816                             2

     1  teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
     2  third Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA  Recog-
     3  nition  Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due
     4  to  a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on the
     5  second Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be  known
     6  as  "War  of  1812  Day",  the  fourth  Saturday  of September, known as
     7  "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in  September,  to  be  known  as
     8  "Gold  Star  Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallen-
     9  berg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day  in  the
    10  State  of  New  York",  October eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities
    11  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
    12  Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
    13  ber twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton  Day",  the  third
    14  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.