Bill Text: NY A00472 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on the Holocaust within the state; provides a report shall be delivered which includes detailed results of the survey, the extent the survey data submitted was compliant with section eight hundred one of the education law, and if needed, recommendations to strengthen provisions of law if not compliant.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 57-21)

Status: (Passed) 2022-08-10 - signed chap.490 [A00472 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00472-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         472--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC, LAVINE, GRIFFIN, EICHENSTEIN, CYMBROWITZ,
          CARROLL, THIELE, COLTON, CRUZ,  BRAUNSTEIN,  CUSICK,  AUBRY,  EPSTEIN,
          SIMON,   MORINELLO,   TAYLOR,   PHEFFER AMATO,  McDONOUGH,  SEAWRIGHT,
          B. MILLER, DeSTEFANO, NORRIS, SMULLEN,  L. ROSENTHAL,  RAMOS,  ABBATE,
          HYNDMAN,  COOK, WEPRIN, DINOWITZ, STIRPE, DE LA ROSA, NIOU, SMITH, RA,
          BYRNE, MIKULIN, SILLITTI, BARNWELL, ENGLEBRIGHT, PAULIN, DURSO, STERN,
          McMAHON, GALEF,  MONTESANO,  FERNANDEZ,  PICHARDO,  BICHOTTE HERMELYN,
          LAWLER  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A. TAGUE -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education -- committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT in relation to  authorizing  the  commissioner  of  education  to
          conduct a study regarding courses of study on the Holocaust within the
          state

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of education is authorized and directed to
     2  conduct a study regarding courses of study on the Holocaust  within  the
     3  state.  Such  study  shall  focus  on identifying which school districts
     4  subject to section eight hundred one of the education law offer a course
     5  of information on the Holocaust.
     6    § 2. A report of the findings of such study and recommendations of the
     7  commissioner of education shall be delivered to the governor, the tempo-
     8  rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the  minority
     9  leader  of  the senate and the minority leader of the assembly the first
    10  of January following the effective date of this act.
    11    § 3. The commissioner of education, within ninety days of the issuance
    12  of the report required pursuant to section two of this  act,  shall  put
    13  forward  recommendations  to  ensure  instruction  on  the  Holocaust is
    14  provided at all schools in compliance with section eight hundred one  of
    15  the education law.
    16    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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