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S04983 Summary:

BILL NOS04983
 
SAME ASSAME AS A04426
 
SPONSORMURRAY
 
COSPNSRASHBY, GALLIVAN, PALUMBO, TEDISCO
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd 168-a & 403, Exec L
 
Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day"; requires the flag to be flown at half-staff on such date.
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S04983 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4983
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 21, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. MURRAY, PALUMBO -- 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:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 168-a of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  237  of  the  laws  of 2020, 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 tenth, to be
    11  known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
    12  nam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW  Recognition  Day",
    13  April  twenty-seventh,  to  be  known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April
    14  twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
    15  in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth,  to
    16  be  known  as  "Thurgood  Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be
    17  known as "Children's Day", June second, to be known  as  "Italian  Inde-
    18  pendence  Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition
    19  Day", June nineteenth, to be known as  "Juneteenth  Freedom  Day",  June
    20  twenty-fifth,  to  be  known  as  "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second
    21  Monday in July, to be known as  "Abolition  Commemoration  Day",  August
    22  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
    23  ty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", August thirty-first, to
    24  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.
                                                                   LBD03902-01-3

        S. 4983                             2
 
     1  "Battle  of  Plattsburgh  Day"  and  also to be known as "September 11th
     2  Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry  Day"
     3  and  also  to  be  known  as  "Uncle  Sam Day in the State of New York",
     4  September  seventeenth,  to  be  known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
     5  Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known  as  "New  York
     6  State  POW/MIA  Recognition  Day"  except  if such date of commemoration
     7  cannot be observed due to a religious holiday,  such  observances  shall
     8  then  be  conducted on the second Friday of September, the last Saturday
     9  in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth  Saturday  of
    10  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
    11  to  be  known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as
    12  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
    13  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
    14  bilities History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Theodore
    15  Roosevelt  Day",  November  ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance
    16  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    17  third Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State  School-Related
    18  Professionals  Recognition  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as
    19  "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International
    20  Day  of  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December seventh, to be known as
    21  "Pearl Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known  as  "Bastogne  Day"
    22  and  that  day  of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be
    23  known as "Asian New Year".
    24    § 2. Subdivision 21 of section 403 of the executive law, as amended by
    25  chapter 666 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
    26    21. The flag shall be flown at full staff at all times except it shall
    27  be flown at half-staff on the thirty-first day of August, known as Over-
    28  dose Awareness Day, the eleventh of September, known as  September  11th
    29  Remembrance Day, the seventh day of December, known as Pearl Harbor Day,
    30  and  to commemorate the death of a personage of national or state stand-
    31  ing or of a local serviceman, official or public  servant  who,  in  the
    32  opinion of the local agency concerned, contributed to the community.  It
    33  may  also  be  flown  at  half-staff  during special periods of mourning
    34  designated by the President of the United States or the Governor of this
    35  state.
    36    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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