New York A 8507: Designates April eighth as Co-Occurring Disorders Awareness Day

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A08507 Summary:

BILL NOA08507 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01793

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SPONSORBrown K

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Amd §168-a, Exec L

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Designates April eighth as "Co-Occurring Disorders Awareness Day".

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BILL NOA08507 

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05/20/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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Go to topA08507 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8507

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 20, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating April
 eighth as "Co-Occurring Disorders 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 eighth, to be know as "Co-Occurring Disorders Awareness
 14 Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day", April twenty-
 15 seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April twenty-eighth,
 16 to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday in May to be
 17 known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to be known as
 18 "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Chil-
 19 dren's Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Independence Day",
 20 June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June
 21 nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth,
 22 to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in July, to
 23 be 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05326-01-5

 A. 8507 2

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