Bill Text: NY S00513 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Diwali, Lunar New Year, Tihar, Bandi Chhor Divas and Onam as school holidays.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-2)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00513 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00513-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         513--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens. THOMAS, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, JACKSON, PERSAUD, RAMOS
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to establishing certain
          school holidays

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 3210 of the educa-
     2  tion law is amended by adding  a  new  subparagraph  (iii)  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (iii)  The  following  cultural  or religious holidays shall be school
     5  holidays for any schools or school districts where the board  of  educa-
     6  tion  or  trustees determines such schools or districts have a consider-
     7  able proportion of students who observe  such  days:  Eid  al-Fitr,  Eid
     8  al-Adha, Diwali, Tihar, Bandi Chhor Divas and Onam.
     9    §  2.  Section  3604  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    10  subdivision 8-c to read as follows:
    11    8-c. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes  of  any
    12  calculation  under  subdivision  seven  or  eight  of  this section, the
    13  commissioner shall disregard any reduction resulting from observance  of
    14  Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Diwali, Tihar, Bandi Chhor Divas and Onam and,
    15  if  necessary,  such  observed  holidays  shall be calculated as session
    16  days.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    18  the date on which it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01658-03-3