STATE OF NEW YORK
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8871
IN SENATE
April 26, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- 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 the month
of May as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 168-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 168-b. Designation of months of commemoration. 1. A month of commem-
4 oration is a calendar month so designated by this section or a calendar
5 month in any one year so designated by a proclamation of the governor or
6 resolution of the senate and assembly jointly adopted.
7 2. A month of commemoration shall not constitute a holiday or half-ho-
8 liday but shall be a month set aside in recognition and special honor of
9 a person, persons, group, ideal or goal.
10 3. The following month shall be a month of commemoration in each year:
11 May, to be known as "Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month".
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15181-01-2
