STATE OF NEW YORK
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1435
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, COLTON, ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, SIMON --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FITZPATRICK, HEVESI, McDONOUGH, RA --
read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain
text-books to reference the Sea of Japan as also the East Sea
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 706 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 706. Reference to Sea of Japan. Any text-book approved and issued
4 pursuant to section seven hundred one of this article which refers to
5 the Sea of Japan shall also refer to such sea as the East Sea.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
7 the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to text-
8 books approved and issued on or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04006-01-5
