S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4426
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 14, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
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 237 of the laws of 2020, 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 tenth, to be
known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
nam Veterans' 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 Inde-
pendence 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 twen-
ty-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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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"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 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. Subdivision 21 of section 403 of the executive law, as amended by
chapter 666 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
21. The flag shall be flown at full staff at all times except it shall
be flown at half-staff on THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF AUGUST, KNOWN AS OVER-
DOSE AWARENESS DAY, the eleventh of September, known as September 11th
Remembrance Day, the seventh day of December, known as Pearl Harbor Day,
and to commemorate the death of a personage of national or state stand-
ing or of a local serviceman, official or public servant who, in the
opinion of the local agency concerned, contributed to the community. It
may also be flown at half-staff during special periods of mourning
designated by the President of the United States or the Governor of this
state.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.