New York S 487: Designates August thirty-first as "Overdose Awareness Day"

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S00487 Summary:

BILL NOS00487 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06018

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SPONSORFERNANDEZ

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COSPNSRMURRAY, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BORRELLO, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES, GRIFFO, HARCKHAM,
 HELMING, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, MARTINEZ, MAYER, OBERACKER, RIVERA, ROLISON, WEBB, WEBER, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §168-a, Exec L

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Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day".

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BILL NOS00487 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/21/20251ST REPORT CAL.108

01/22/20252ND REPORT CAL.

01/27/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

02/25/2025PASSED SENATE

02/25/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

02/25/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/20/20261ST REPORT CAL.110

01/21/20262ND REPORT CAL.

01/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

02/26/2026PASSED SENATE

02/26/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

02/26/2026referred to governmental operations

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There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 487

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. FERNANDEZ, MURRAY, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BORRELLO, CANZON-
 ERI-FITZPATRICK, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES, GRIFFO, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
 JACKSON, MARTINEZ, MAYER, OBERACKER, RIVERA, WEBB, WEBER, WEIK -- 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 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-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01784-01-5

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 1 fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", the second Monday in
 2 July, to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August twenty-
 3 fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-
 4 sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", August thirty-first, to be
 5 known as "Overdose Awareness Day", September eleventh, to be known as
 6 "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "September 11th
 7 Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day"
 8 and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York",
 9 September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
 10 Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be known as "New York
 11 State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of commemoration
 12 cannot be observed due to a religious holiday, such obs