S 1811 NY Passed Legislature
Designates May ninth as Opioid Awareness Day
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Summary
This bill would designate May ninth as "Opioid Awareness Day" in New York State. It adds May ninth to the list of official state days of commemoration maintained in New York's executive law. The bill takes effect immediately upon becoming law. The designation makes May ninth an official observance day in the state's calendar, alongside other commemorative dates for historical events and causes.
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Designates May ninth as "Opioid Awareness Day".
Sponsor (1)
- Nathalia Fernandez Democratic · primary
3 coauthors / cosponsors
- Pamela Helming Republican · cosponsor
- Dean Murray Republican · cosponsor
- Robert Rolison Republican · cosponsor
Action history (16)
- Jan 14, 2025 REFERRED TO FINANCE · upper
- Jan 21, 2025 1ST REPORT CAL.114 · upper
- Jan 22, 2025 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- Jan 27, 2025 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- May 12, 2025 PASSED SENATE · upper
- May 12, 2025 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- May 12, 2025 REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 DIED IN ASSEMBLY · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO FINANCE · upper
- Jan 20, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.115 · upper
- Jan 21, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- Jan 27, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- May 7, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
- May 7, 2026 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- May 7, 2026 REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS · lower
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S01811 Summary: BILL NO S01811   SAME AS SAME AS A10572
  SPONSOR FERNANDEZ   COSPNSR HELMING, MURRAY, ROLISON   MLTSPNSR   Amd §168-a, Exec L   Designates May ninth as "Opioid Awareness Day".
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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
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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 known as "Shirley 20 Chisholm Day", December third, to be known as "International Day of 21 Persons with Disabilities", December seventh, to be known as "Pearl 22 Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and that 23 day of the Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be known as 24 "Asian New Year". 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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