Bill Text: NY S01222 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires instruction in agriculture in every elementary, middle, and high school under state control or supported wholly or partly by the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01222 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01222-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1222

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  instruction
          in agriculture

          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 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 817. Instruction in agriculture. 1.  Beginning in the  two  thousand
     4  twenty-four--two  thousand  twenty-five  school year, and in each school
     5  year thereafter, the officer, board or commission authorized or required
     6  to prescribe courses of instruction shall cause instruction to be  given
     7  in  every  elementary,  middle,  and  high school under state control or
     8  supported wholly or partly by public money of the state, in  the  disci-
     9  plines  necessary to be a successful farmer for the purposes of ensuring
    10  children understand the origin, by-products,  and  farm-to-market  proc-
    11  esses  of  their  food,  nutrients,  and clothes. Such instruction shall
    12  include topic matters  such  as  resource  conservation  and  management
    13  including  food,  water,  forest, and land, city agriculture management,
    14  food-to-table processes,  sustainability  practices,  waste  management,
    15  textile  production,  career  choices  in  the agriculture industry, the
    16  daily life of a farmer, and culture in rural farming  communities.  Such
    17  instruction  shall be for such period of time during each school year as
    18  the board of regents may prescribe and may be joined with  work  in  the
    19  sciences,   mathematics,  history,  and/or  business.  Such  courses  of
    20  instruction shall be approved by both the department  of  education  and
    21  the department of agriculture and markets.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01371-01-3