Bill Text: NY A00140 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting school districts, school principals, administrators, or teachers from requiring, permitting, or conducting a lesson or experimental study using an animal in a hatching project.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to education [A00140 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00140-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           140

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL,  PAULIN,  SIMONE -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  animal  hatching
          projects

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of  section  809  of  the  education  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
     3    c.  No  school  district,  school principal, administrator, or teacher
     4  shall require, permit, or conduct a lesson or experimental  study  using
     5  an  animal in a hatching project in any such school or during any activ-
     6  ity conducted under the auspices of  such  school  whether  or  not  the
     7  activity takes place on the premises of such school.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01355-01-5