STATE OF NEW YORK
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4758--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SLATER, E. BROWN -- read once and referred 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 defining antisemitism
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 115 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 115. Antisemitism. In reviewing, investigating, or deciding whether
4 there has been a violation of any state law, rule, or regulation or of
5 title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.) on
6 the basis of race, color, or national origin, based on an individual's
7 actual or perceived shared Jewish ancestry or Jewish ethnic character-
8 istics, the department shall take into consideration as part of the
9 department's assessment whether the practice is defined as antisemitism
10 as such term is defined under the International Holocaust Remembrance
11 Alliance on May twenty-sixth, two thousand sixteen, including contempo-
12 rary examples of antisemitism.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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