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A03290 Summary:

BILL NOA03290
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORDurso
 
COSPNSRHawley, Angelino, Manktelow, Blankenbush, McDonough, Jensen, DeStefano, Chang, Bailey, Brown K
 
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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A03290 Actions:

BILL NOA03290
 
01/27/2025referred to governmental operations
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A03290 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3290
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 27, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        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:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 168-a of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  542  of  the  laws  of 2024, 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 seventeenth, to be
    17  known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be  known
    18  as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence
    19  Day", June twelfth, to be known as  "Women  Veterans  Recognition  Day",
    20  June  nineteenth,  to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-
    21  fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second  Monday  in
    22  July,  to  be  known  as  "Abolition  Commemoration Day", August twenty-
    23  fourth, to be known as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",  August  twenty-
    24  sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", August thirty-first, to be

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01131-01-5

        A. 3290                             2
 
     1  known  as  "Overdose  Awareness Day", September eleventh, to be known as
     2  "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to  be  known  as  "September  11th
     3  Remembrance  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day"
     4  and  also  to  be  known  as  "Uncle  Sam Day in the State of New York",
     5  September seventeenth, to be known as  "Friedrich  Wilhelm  von  Steuben
     6  Memorial  Day",  the  third Friday in September to be known as "New York
     7  State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except  if  such  date  of  commemoration
     8  cannot  be  observed  due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
     9  then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the  last  Saturday
    10  in  September,  to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
    11  September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
    12  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be  known  as
    13  "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
    14  Day in the State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disa-
    15  bilities  History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore
    16  Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known as  "Witness  for  Tolerance
    17  Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the
    18  third  Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
    19  Professionals Recognition Day", November twenty-sixth, to  be  known  as
    20  "Sojourner  Truth  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be known as "Shirley
    21  Chisholm Day", December third, to be  known  as  "International  Day  of
    22  Persons  with  Disabilities",  December  seventh,  to be known as "Pearl
    23  Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and  that
    24  day  of  the  Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be known as
    25  "Asian New Year".
    26    § 2. Subdivision 21 of section 403 of the executive law, as amended by
    27  chapter 666 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
    28    21. The flag shall be flown at full staff at all times except it shall
    29  be flown at half-staff on the thirty-first day of August, known as Over-
    30  dose Awareness Day, the eleventh of September, known as  September  11th
    31  Remembrance Day, the seventh day of December, known as Pearl Harbor Day,
    32  and  to commemorate the death of a personage of national or state stand-
    33  ing or of a local serviceman, official or public  servant  who,  in  the
    34  opinion of the local agency concerned, contributed to the community.  It
    35  may  also  be  flown  at  half-staff  during special periods of mourning
    36  designated by the President of the United States or the Governor of this
    37  state.
    38    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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