Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on the Holocaust within the state; provides a report shall be delivered which includes detailed results of the survey, the extent the survey data submitted was compliant with section eight hundred one of the education law, and if needed, recommendations to strengthen provisions of law if not compliant.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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121--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. KAPLAN, ADDABBO, AKSHAR, BIAGGI, BOYLE, BROOKS,
COONEY, GALLIVAN, GAUGHRAN, GOUNARDES, HINCHEY, HOYLMAN, KAMINSKY,
KENNEDY, MARTUCCI, OBERACKER, PALUMBO, RYAN, SANDERS, SERINO, SKOUFIS,
THOMAS, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee and
committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT in relation to authorizing the commissioner of education to
conduct a study regarding courses of study on the Holocaust within the
state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of education is authorized and directed to
2 conduct a survey regarding instruction on the Holocaust within the
3 state. Such survey shall focus on identifying which school districts
4 subject to section eight hundred one of the education law provide
5 instruction on the Holocaust. Such survey shall include as appropriate,
6 questions on how the district is meeting the learning standards for
7 instruction requirements on the Holocaust pursuant to section eight
8 hundred one of the education law. Such survey shall also require an
9 attestation from each school district superintendent that indicates
10 instruction related to the Holocaust is provided at all appropriate
11 grade levels in compliance with section eight hundred one of the educa-
12 tion law.
13 § 2. Findings shall include detailed results of the survey, the extent
14 the survey data submitted was compliant with section eight hundred one
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of the education law, and if needed, recommendations to strengthen
2 provisions of law if not compliant. A report of the findings of such
3 survey shall be delivered to the governor, the temporary president of
4 the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the
5 senate and the minority leader of the assembly the first of January
6 following the effective date of this act or one hundred twenty days
7 after the effective date of this act, whichever is later.
8 § 3. Each school district that does not respond to such survey or does
9 not affirmatively attest that such instruction is provided pursuant to
10 section two of this act shall prepare and implement a corrective action
11 plan to comply with the instruction required by section eight hundred
12 one of the education law. Such corrective action plan shall be submitted
13 for approval by the commissioner of education in a timeframe, and form
14 and format, acceptable to the commissioner.
15 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
