STATE OF NEW YORK
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7045
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 31, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa-
tion
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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