Bill Text: NY S03579 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires all text-books approved by this article to reference the Sea of Japan as also the East Sea.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S03579 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03579-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3579

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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 on the first of July  next  succeeding
     7  the  date  on  which it shall have become a law and shall apply to text-
     8  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.
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