Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on the Holocaust within the state; provides a report shall be delivered which includes detailed results of the survey, the extent the survey data submitted was compliant with section eight hundred one of the education law, and if needed, recommendations to strengthen provisions of law if not compliant.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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472--C
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, WEINSTEIN, LAVINE, GRIFFIN, EICHENSTEIN,
CYMBROWITZ, CARROLL, THIELE, COLTON, CRUZ, BRAUNSTEIN, CUSICK, AUBRY,
EPSTEIN, SIMON, MORINELLO, TAYLOR, PHEFFER AMATO, McDONOUGH,
SEAWRIGHT, B. MILLER, DeSTEFANO, NORRIS, SMULLEN, L. ROSENTHAL, RAMOS,
ABBATE, HYNDMAN, COOK, WEPRIN, DINOWITZ, STIRPE, NIOU, SMITH, RA,
BYRNE, MIKULIN, SILLITTI, BARNWELL, ENGLEBRIGHT, PAULIN, DURSO, STERN,
McMAHON, GALEF, MONTESANO, FERNANDEZ, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, D. ROSENTHAL,
GLICK, LAWLER, FITZPATRICK, PALMESANO, BRABENEC, JACOBSON, DE LOS
SANTOS, KELLES, SCHMITT, K. BROWN, E. BROWN -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Educa-
tion -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- reference changed to the
Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways
and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amend-
ments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT in relation to authorizing the commissioner of education to
conduct a survey regarding instruction on the Holocaust within the
state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of education is authorized and directed to
2 conduct a survey regarding instruction on the Holocaust within the
3 state. Such survey shall focus on identifying which school districts
4 subject to section eight hundred one of the education law provide
5 instruction on the Holocaust. Such survey shall include as appropriate,
6 questions on how the district is meeting the learning standards for
7 instruction requirements on the Holocaust pursuant to section eight
8 hundred one of the education law. Such survey shall also require an
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 attestation from each school district superintendent that indicates
2 instruction related to the Holocaust is provided at all appropriate
3 grade levels in compliance with section eight hundred one of the educa-
4 tion law.
5 § 2. Findings shall include detailed results of the survey, the extent
6 the survey data submitted was compliant with section eight hundred one
7 of the education law, and if needed, recommendations to strengthen
8 provisions of law if not compliant. A report of the findings of such
9 survey shall be delivered to the governor, the temporary president of
10 the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the
11 senate and the minority leader of the assembly the first of January
12 following the effective date of this act or one hundred twenty days
13 after the effective date of this act, whichever is later.
14 § 3. Each school district that does not respond to such survey or does
15 not affirmatively attest that such instruction is provided pursuant to
16 section two of this act shall prepare and implement a corrective action
17 plan to comply with the instruction required by section eight hundred
18 one of the education law. Such corrective action plan shall be submitted
19 for approval by the commissioner of education in a timeframe, and form
20 and format, acceptable to the commissioner.
21 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.