Bill Text: NY A03952 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that no class or any other course of instruction shall be held in any institution within the state or city university on those days of religious observance known as Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A03952 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03952-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3952

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONOUGH  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to observance of  certain
          holidays  by  institutions  within  the  state university and the city
          university of New York

          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 362
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 362.  Holidays to be observed.   No class or  any  other  course  of
     4  instruction shall be held in any institution within the state university
     5  on  those  days  of  religious  observance known as Rosh Hashanah or Yom
     6  Kippur.
     7    § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6235 to read
     8  as follows:
     9    § 6235. Holidays to be observed. No  class  or  any  other  course  of
    10  instruction  shall be held in any institution within the city university
    11  on those days of religious observance known  as  Rosh  Hashanah  or  Yom
    12  Kippur.
    13    § 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07300-01-3