Bill Text: NY A09707 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires Title VI training for certain colleges or universities in New York state which includes the definition of antisemitism adopted by the international holocaust remembrance alliance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-06 - referred to higher education [A09707 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09707-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9707

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 6, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to Title VI training for
          certain colleges or universities in New York state

          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 article 129-C
     2  to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 129-C
     4                              TITLE VI TRAINING
     5  Section 6450. Title VI training.
     6    § 6450. Title VI training. 1. For purposes of this section,  "institu-
     7  tion"  shall  mean any college or university chartered by the regents or
     8  incorporated by special act of the legislature that maintains  a  campus
     9  in New York.
    10    2.  Every  institution  shall  require all employees who are likely to
    11  interact or come into  contact  with  students  to  undergo  a  training
    12  program  in  Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of nineteen hundred sixty-
    13  four. Such training program shall be approved  by  the  department,  and
    14  shall  include,  but  not  be limited to, the definition of antisemitism
    15  adopted on May twenty-six, two thousand sixteen,  by  the  international
    16  holocaust remembrance alliance, which states, "Antisemitism is a certain
    17  perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.  Rhet-
    18  orical  and  physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward
    19  Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their  property,  toward  Jewish
    20  community  institutions and religious facilities".  The training program
    21  may be developed by a federal, state, or  non-profit  organization,  and
    22  may  be  incorporated  as  part  of  the institution's existing training
    23  programs or may be provided by organizations or providers identified  by
    24  the department.
    25    3.  The  department shall make available no more than six months after
    26  the effective date of this section a list of approved cultural sensitiv-
    27  ity and diversity training programs for use by institutions.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15063-02-0
        A. 9707                             2

     1    4. Training shall take place on the premises of  the  institution  and
     2  shall be considered compensable time.
     3    5.  Every  institution  shall  maintain  records  indicating that each
     4  employee required to undergo  an  approved  Title  VI  training  program
     5  pursuant to this section has completed such training. Such records shall
     6  be  kept  on  file  by  the  institution for the period during which the
     7  employee is employed by the institution and  for  one  year  after  such
     8  employment ends.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
    11  education may make regulations  and  take  other  actions  necessary  to
    12  implement this act on its effective date.