Bill Text: NY A01063 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the requirements for teaching humane education of animals to secondary school students; requires verification of compliance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-17 - print number 1063a [A01063 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1063
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A. GLICK, SIMON -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding the require-
          ments for teaching humane education to secondary school students
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  809  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  542  of  the  laws  of 1994, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. a. The officer, board  or  commission  authorized  or  required  to
     5  prescribe  courses of instruction shall cause instruction to be given in
     6  every elementary school under state control or supported wholly or part-
     7  ly by public money of the state, in the humane treatment and  protection
     8  of  animals  and  the importance of the part they play in the economy of
     9  nature as well as the necessity  of  controlling  the  proliferation  of
    10  animals  which  are  subsequently abandoned and caused to suffer extreme
    11  cruelty. Such instruction shall be for such period of time  during  each
    12  school year as the board of regents may prescribe and may be joined with
    13  work  in  literature, reading, language, nature study or ethnology. Such
    14  weekly instruction may be divided into two or more periods.
    15    b. The  officer,  board,  or  commission  authorized  or  required  to
    16  prescribe  courses of instruction shall cause instruction to be given in
    17  every secondary school under state control or supported wholly or partly
    18  by public money of the state, in the humane treatment and protection  of
    19  animals  and  the  importance  of  the  part they play in the economy of
    20  nature as well as the necessity  of  controlling  the  proliferation  of
    21  animals  which  are  subsequently abandoned and caused to suffer extreme
    22  cruelty.  Such instruction shall include educating students on the prin-
    23  ciples of kindness to and respect for animals and observance of laws and
    24  rules pertaining to the humane treatment of  animals.  The  commissioner
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  shall  determine how to incorporate such instruction in existing curric-
     2  ula and the commissioner shall  promulgate  any  regulations  needed  to
     3  carry out such determination.
     4    c.  A  school  district  shall  not  be entitled to participate in the
     5  public school money on account of any school or the  attendance  at  any
     6  school  subject  to  the  provisions of this section, if the instruction
     7  required [hereby] pursuant to this section is not given therein.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
     9  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    10  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    11  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    12  and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.