Bill Text: NY S08708 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school boards of school districts with race-based mascots to, at least once annually, dedicate a portion of a meeting of such school board to the discussion of racial sensitivity.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - PRINT NUMBER 8708A [S08708 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08708-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8708

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 9, 2020
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to excluding schools with
          race-based mascots from receiving state funding

          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 3602-g
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3602-g.  Exclusion of school districts with race-based mascots from
     4  apportionment of public moneys. 1. As used in this section,  "race-based
     5  mascot"  shall  mean  any  person,  animal or object used to represent a
     6  school district which is derived from a specific race or ethnicity or is
     7  based on certain characteristics of a specific race or ethnicity.
     8    2. Any school district within the state that has adopted a  race-based
     9  mascot  and  where such mascot is used to represent such school district
    10  publicly or privately, shall  be  excluded  from  any  apportionment  of
    11  public moneys from the state it may otherwise be entitled to pursuant to
    12  this article. Such exclusion shall be indefinite until a school district
    13  disassociates completely with such race-based mascot.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect three years after it shall have become
    15  a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16875-01-0