STATE OF NEW YORK
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2216
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 16, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, BAILEY -- 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 establishing Eid-al-
Adha and Eid-al-Fitr as school holidays
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 3204-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3204-a. Eid-al-Adha and Eid-al-Fitr school holidays. 1. The days of
4 the Islamic lunar calendar designated to begin on the tenth day of the
5 month of Dhul Hijja and commonly known as "Eid-al-Adha", and the first
6 day of Shawwai known as Eid-al-Fitr shall be school holidays for all
7 public schools.
8 2. The school authorities of every public school are hereby authorized
9 and directed to cause all public schools within such districts to be
10 closed on Eid-al-Adha and Eid-al-Fitr.
11 § 2. Section 3604 of the education law is amended by adding a new
12 subdivision 7-a to read as follows:
13 7-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of any
14 calculation under subdivision seven or eight of this section, the
15 commissioner shall disregard any reduction resulting from observance of
16 Eid-al-Adha and Eid-al-Fitr and, if necessary, such observed holidays
17 shall be calculated as a session day.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
19 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amend-
20 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
21 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
22 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04927-01-5
