Bill Text: NY A00472 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on the Holocaust within the state; provides a report shall be delivered which includes detailed results of the survey, the extent the survey data submitted was compliant with section eight hundred one of the education law, and if needed, recommendations to strengthen provisions of law if not compliant.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 57-21)

Status: (Passed) 2022-08-10 - signed chap.490 [A00472 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00472-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         472--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC, LAVINE, GRIFFIN, EICHENSTEIN, CYMBROWITZ,
          CARROLL, THIELE, COLTON, CRUZ,  BRAUNSTEIN,  CUSICK,  AUBRY,  EPSTEIN,
          SIMON,   MORINELLO,   TAYLOR,   PHEFFER AMATO,  McDONOUGH,  SEAWRIGHT,
          B. MILLER, DeSTEFANO, NORRIS, SMULLEN,  L. ROSENTHAL,  RAMOS,  ABBATE,
          HYNDMAN, COOK, WEPRIN, DINOWITZ, STIRPE, NIOU, SMITH, RA, BYRNE, MIKU-
          LIN,  SILLITTI,  BARNWELL, ENGLEBRIGHT, PAULIN, DURSO, STERN, McMAHON,
          GALEF, MONTESANO, FERNANDEZ, BICHOTTE HERMELYN,  D. ROSENTHAL,  GLICK,
          LAWLER,  FITZPATRICK,  PALMESANO,  BRABENEC,  JACOBSON, DE LOS SANTOS,
          KELLES, SCHMITT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. TAGUE --  read  once
          and  referred  to  the Committee on Education -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee  --  reference changed to the Committee on Ways and Means --
          recommitted to the Committee on Ways  and  Means  in  accordance  with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2

        AN  ACT  in  relation  to  authorizing  the commissioner of education to
          conduct a survey regarding instruction on  the  Holocaust  within  the
          state

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of education is authorized and directed to
     2  conduct a survey regarding  instruction  on  the  Holocaust  within  the
     3  state.  Such  survey  shall  focus on identifying which school districts
     4  subject to section eight  hundred  one  of  the  education  law  provide
     5  instruction on the Holocaust.  Such survey shall include as appropriate,
     6  questions  on  how  the  district  is meeting the learning standards for
     7  instruction requirements on the  Holocaust  pursuant  to  section  eight
     8  hundred  one  of  the education law.   Such survey shall also require an
     9  attestation from each public school district superintendent  that  indi-
    10  cates  instruction related to the Holocaust is provided at all appropri-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00692-10-2
        A. 472--B                           2

     1  ate grade levels in compliance with section eight  hundred  one  of  the
     2  education law.
     3    § 2. Findings shall include detailed results of the survey, the extent
     4  the  survey  data submitted was compliant with section eight hundred one
     5  of the education law,  and  if  needed,  recommendations  to  strengthen
     6  provisions  of  law  if not compliant.  A report of the findings of such
     7  survey shall be delivered to the governor, the  temporary  president  of
     8  the  senate,  the  speaker  of  the assembly, the minority leader of the
     9  senate and the minority leader of the assembly no later than  the  first
    10  of January one year following the effective date of this act.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.