Bill Text: NY A00579 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all text-books approved by this article to reference the Sea of Japan as also the East Sea.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A00579 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00579-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 579 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, ORTIZ, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, L. ROSEN- THAL, LAVINE, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DenDEKKER, FITZPATRICK, GALEF, HEVESI, McDONOUGH, RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain text-books to reference the Sea of Japan as also the East Sea The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 706 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 706. Reference to Sea of Japan. Any text-book approved and issued 4 pursuant to section seven hundred one of this article which refers to 5 the Sea of Japan shall also refer to such sea as the East Sea. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021 and shall apply to text- 7 books approved and issued on or after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02666-01-9