Bill Text: NY A07672 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A07672 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07672-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7672

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 1, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. SEAWRIGHT, REYES, BRONSON, LAVINE, CRUZ, OTIS,
          DINOWITZ, EPSTEIN, DICKENS, ANDERSON, SIMON,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  WEPRIN,
          GLICK,  L. ROSENTHAL  --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on
          Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring LGBT  aware-
          ness curriculum or instruction

          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  804-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  804-e. LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction. 1. The commission-
     4  er, in consultation with any appropriate agency, shall establish curric-
     5  ulum or instruction for school districts in the historical treatment  of
     6  lesbian,  gay,  bisexual, transgender and gender non-conforming individ-
     7  uals. The contents may be varied to meet the needs of particular  school
     8  districts,  or  portions thereof, and need not be uniform throughout the
     9  state. The content shall be  age  appropriate  and  shall  be  developed
    10  according  to  the  needs  and  abilities  of pupils at successive grade
    11  levels in order to provide information, skills, and understanding of the
    12  historical treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender  and  gender
    13  non-conforming individuals.
    14    2.  Schools  may  include  the  above  materials as a component of its
    15  social studies curriculum or any other way the school deems appropriate.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024 and shall apply to school
    17  years commencing on or after such date. Effective immediately, the addi-
    18  tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  necessary  for
    19  the  implementation  of this act on its effective date are authorized to
    20  be made and completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00374-01-3