STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           321

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL,
          LAVINE, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  FITZPATRICK,  GALEF,
          HEVESI,  McDONOUGH,  RA  -- read once and referred 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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