New York S 1811: Designates May ninth as Opioid Awareness Day

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S01811 Summary:

BILL NOS01811 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10572

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SPONSORFERNANDEZ

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COSPNSRHELMING, MURRAY, ROLISON

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §168-a, Exec L

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Designates May ninth as "Opioid Awareness Day".

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BILL NOS01811 

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01/14/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/21/20251ST REPORT CAL.114

01/22/20252ND REPORT CAL.

01/27/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/12/2025PASSED SENATE

05/12/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/12/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/20/20261ST REPORT CAL.115

01/21/20262ND REPORT CAL.

01/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/07/2026PASSED SENATE

05/07/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1811

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 May ninth
 as "Opioid 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 ninth, to be known as
 17 "Opioid Awareness Day", May seventeenth, to be known as "Thurgood Mars-
 18 hall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be known as "Children's Day",
 19 June second, to be known as "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to
 20 be known as "Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be
 21 known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as
 22 "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in July, to be known as
 23 "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty-fourth, to be known as
 24 "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-sixth, to be known as
 25 "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.
 LBD05328-01-5

 S. 1811 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 Histor