Bill Text: NY A00243 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires hate crime awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A00243 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00243-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           243

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  hate  crime
          awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts

          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.  Hate  crime  awareness  curriculum  or  instruction. 1. The
     4  commissioner, in consultation with the division of human rights and  any
     5  other  appropriate  agency, shall establish hate crime awareness curric-
     6  ulum or instruction for school districts, including, but not limited to,
     7  instruction on what discrimination and religious intolerance,  including
     8  anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,  might look like as well as the positive
     9  actions  students  can  take  to  promote acceptance, inclusion, and the
    10  diversity of their communities.   The  content  of  such  curriculum  or
    11  instruction  may  be  varied  to  meet  the  needs  of particular school
    12  districts, or portions thereof, and need not be uniform  throughout  the
    13  state.    The  content  of  such  curriculum or instruction shall be age
    14  appropriate and shall be developed according to the needs and  abilities
    15  of  pupils at successive grade levels in order to provide skills, infor-
    16  mation, and guidance to aid in hate crime awareness.
    17    2. Schools may include the curriculum or instruction required by  this
    18  section  as a component of its social studies curriculum or in any other
    19  manner the school deems appropriate.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    21  the  date  upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
    22  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
    23  sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
    24  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00129-01-3