Senate Bill S8814

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Designates March thirty-first as Vaping Awareness Day

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S8814 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Exec L

2023-S8814 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates March thirty-first as "Vaping Awareness Day".

2023-S8814 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8814 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   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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