Bill Text: NY A01230 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to education [A01230 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01230-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1230

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. SEAWRIGHT, REYES, BRONSON, LAVINE, CRUZ, OTIS,
          DINOWITZ, EPSTEIN, ANDERSON,  SIMON,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  WEPRIN,  GLICK,
          ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring LGBT aware-
          ness curriculum or instruction

          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. LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction. 1. The  commission-
     4  er, in consultation with any appropriate agency, shall establish curric-
     5  ulum  or instruction for school districts in the historical treatment of
     6  lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender  non-conforming  individ-
     7  uals.  The contents may be varied to meet the needs of particular school
     8  districts, or portions thereof, and need not be uniform  throughout  the
     9  state.  The  content  shall  be  age  appropriate and shall be developed
    10  according to the needs and  abilities  of  pupils  at  successive  grade
    11  levels in order to provide information, skills, and understanding of the
    12  historical  treatment  of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender
    13  non-conforming individuals.
    14    2. Schools may include the above  materials  as  a  component  of  its
    15  social studies curriculum or any other way the school deems appropriate.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026 and shall apply to school
    17  years commencing on or after such date. Effective immediately, the addi-
    18  tion,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for
    19  the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized  to
    20  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.
                                                                   LBD01031-01-5