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A10600 Summary:

BILL NOA10600 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01818

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SPONSORHyndman

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §168-a, Exec L

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

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BILL NOA10600 

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03/13/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10600

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 13, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Governmental Operations

 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:

 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", March thirty-first, to be known as "Vaping Awareness Day",
 14 April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April twenty-seventh,
 15 to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-eighth, to be
 16 known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May to be known
 17 as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be known as "Thur-
 18 good Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Children's
 19 Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence Day", June
 20 twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nine-
 21 teenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth, to
 22 be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in July, to be
 23 known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty-fourth, to be
 24 known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be known
 25 as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of
 26 Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September 11th Remembrance
 27 Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and also to
 28 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.
 LBD05324-01-5

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 1 teenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the
 2 third Friday in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recog-
 3 nition Day" except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due
 4 to a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on the
 5 second Friday of September, the last Saturday in September, to be known
 6 as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of September, known as
 7 "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September, to be known as
 8 "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallen-
 9 berg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland Day in the
 10 State of New York", October eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities
 11 History Day", October twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt
 12 Day", November ninth, to be known as "Witness for Tolerance Day", Novem-
 13 ber twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third
 14 Tuesday in November to be known as "New York State School-Related
 15 Professionals Recognition Day", November twenty-sixth, to be known as
 16 "Sojourner Truth Day", November thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley
 17 Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International Day of
 18 Persons with