Bill Text: NY A03500 | 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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A03500 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03500-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3500

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, SIMON
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FITZPATRICK, 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.
                                                                   LBD01205-01-3