Bill Text: NY S00351 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires school districts and charter schools to establish a task force to make recommendations on model curriculum or instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-31 - PRINT NUMBER 351A [S00351 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00351-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         351--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, HINCHEY, RAMOS -- read
          twice  and  ordered  printed,  and when printed to be committed to the
          Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to inclusive  instruction
          and instructional materials

          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  804-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  804-e.  Task  force on model curriculum or instruction of the poli-
     4  tical, economic, and social contributions of the LGBTQIA  community.  1.
     5  There  is  hereby created a task force to study and make recommendations
     6  on model curriculum or  instruction  of  the  political,  economic,  and
     7  social  contributions  of  lesbian,  gay,  bisexual, transgender, queer,
     8  intersex, and asexual people, in an appropriate place in the  curriculum
     9  of  middle  school  and high school students.  The task force shall also
    10  study and make recommendations on policies, procedures  and  best  prac-
    11  tices  for the selection and adoption of inclusive instructional materi-
    12  als for such model curriculum.
    13    2. The task force shall be composed of eleven members to be  appointed
    14  as follows:
    15    (a) two members shall be appointed by the governor;
    16    (b)  two  members shall be appointed by the temporary president of the
    17  senate;
    18    (c) two members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
    19    (d) one member shall be  appointed  by  the  minority  leader  of  the
    20  senate;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (e) one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the assem-
     2  bly;
     3    (f)  two  members shall be appointed by the chancellor of the board of
     4  regents; and
     5    (g) one member shall be the commissioner or appointed designee thereof
     6  who shall serve as chairperson of the task force.
     7    3. All appointments to the task force shall be submitted no later than
     8  one hundred twenty days after the effective date  of  this  subdivision.
     9  Vacancies  in  the  membership  of the task force shall be filled within
    10  thirty days in the  same  manner  provided  for  original  appointments.
    11  Appointed members shall be chosen with due regard to broad ethnic, sexu-
    12  al  orientation,  and  gender identity or expression diversity and shall
    13  have a demonstrated educational background in the history of  the  poli-
    14  tical,  economic,  and  social  contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
    15  transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people.
    16    4. The members of the task force shall serve without compensation  but
    17  shall  be  reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance
    18  of their duties.
    19    5. The task force shall study and prepare a report on model curriculum
    20  or instruction, policies, procedures and best practices  to  provide  an
    21  inclusive  curriculum  on  the  political, economic, and social contrib-
    22  utions of lesbian, gay,  bisexual,  transgender,  queer,  intersex,  and
    23  asexual  people.    The  report  shall be submitted to the governor, the
    24  temporary president of the senate, the  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the
    25  chairperson of the senate committee on education, the chairperson of the
    26  senate  committee  on  New  York  city education, the chairperson of the
    27  assembly committee on education, the board of regents, and  the  commis-
    28  sioner,  no  later  than  one year after all initial appointments to the
    29  task force have been made.
    30    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    31  the  date  on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to school
    32  years commencing on or after such  date.    Effective  immediately,  the
    33  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    34  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    35  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.