Bill Text: NY A07192 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing the commission on African American history and achievement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A07192 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7192
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 12, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RICHARDSON  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to instruction  in  black
          history
          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  801-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  801-b.  Instruction in black history. In a city having a population
     4  of one million or more people the regents shall ensure that  the  course
     5  of  instruction  in grades kindergarten through twelve includes a compo-
     6  nent of black history. The regents shall determine  how  to  incorporate
     7  such  component in existing curricula and the commissioner shall promul-
     8  gate any regulations needed to  carry  out  such  determination  of  the
     9  regents.  For the purposes of this section, black history shall include,
    10  but not be limited to the women's abolitionist movement, Shirley  Chish-
    11  olm,  David  Dinkins,  the  Harlem renaissance, the Buffalo anti-slavery
    12  conference held in eighteen forty-three and the  suffrage  movement  for
    13  African American Long Islanders.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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