Bill Text: NY A09532 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 9532 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires hate crime awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-17 - print number 9532a [A09532 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09532-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9532--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 24, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to requiring hate crime
          awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts

          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. Hate  crime  awareness  curriculum  or  instruction.  1.  The
     4  commissioner,  in consultation with the division of human rights and any
     5  other appropriate agency, shall establish hate crime  awareness  curric-
     6  ulum or instruction for school districts, including, but not limited to,
     7  instruction  on what discrimination and religious intolerance, including
     8  anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,  might look like as well as the positive
     9  actions students can take to  promote  acceptance,  inclusion,  and  the
    10  diversity  of  their  communities.    The  content of such curriculum or
    11  instruction may be  varied  to  meet  the  needs  of  particular  school
    12  districts,  or  portions thereof, and need not be uniform throughout the
    13  state.   The content of such curriculum  or  instruction  shall  be  age
    14  appropriate  and shall be developed according to the needs and abilities
    15  of pupils at successive grade levels in order to provide skills,  infor-
    16  mation, and guidance to aid in hate crime awareness.
    17    2.  Schools may include the curriculum or instruction required by this
    18  section as a component of its social studies curriculum or in any  other
    19  manner the school deems appropriate.
    20    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    21  the date upon which it shall have become a law.  Effective  immediately,
    22  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    23  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    24  authorized to 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.
                                                                   LBD14685-07-0