Requires school districts and charter schools to establish a task force to make recommendations on model curriculum or instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6806
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, HINCHEY, RAMOS -- 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 inclusive instruction
and instructional materials
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 804-e
2 to read as follows:
3 § 804-e. Task force on model curriculum or instruction of the poli-
4 tical, economic, and social contributions of the LGBTQIA community. 1.
5 There is hereby created a task force to study and make recommendations
6 on model curriculum or instruction of the political, economic, and
7 social contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,
8 intersex, and asexual people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum
9 of middle school and high school students. The task force shall also
10 study and make recommendations on policies, procedures and best prac-
11 tices for the selection and adoption of inclusive instructional materi-
12 als for such model curriculum.
13 2. The task force shall be composed of eleven members to be appointed
14 as follows:
15 (a) two members shall be appointed by the governor;
16 (b) two members shall be appointed by the temporary president of the
17 senate;
18 (c) two members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
19 (d) one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the
20 senate;
21 (e) one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the assem-
22 bly;
23 (f) two members shall be appointed by the chancellor of the board of
24 regents; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (g) one member shall be the commissioner or appointed designee thereof
2 who shall serve as chairperson of the task force.
3 3. All appointments to the task force shall be submitted no later than
4 one hundred twenty days after the effective date of this subdivision.
5 Vacancies in the membership of the task force shall be filled within
6 thirty days in the same manner provided for original appointments.
7 Appointed members shall be chosen with due regard to broad ethnic, sexu-
8 al orientation, and gender identity or expression diversity and shall
9 have a demonstrated educational background in the history of the poli-
10 tical, economic, and social contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
11 transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people.
12 4. The members of the task force shall serve without compensation but
13 shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance
14 of their duties.
15 5. The task force shall study and prepare a report on model curriculum
16 or instruction, policies, procedures and best practices to provide an
17 inclusive curriculum on the political, economic, and social contrib-
18 utions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and
19 asexual people. The report shall be submitted to the governor, the
20 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the
21 chairperson of the senate committee on education, the chairperson of the
22 senate committee on New York city education, the chairperson of the
23 assembly committee on education, the board of regents, and the commis-
24 sioner, no later than one year after all initial appointments to the
25 task force have been made.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
27 the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to school
28 years commencing on or after such date. Effective immediately, the
29 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
30 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
31 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
