Bill Text: NY A06603 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the board of regents to develop a civic curriculum of instruction in federal, state and local government to be taught to students in all schools in the state; permits commissioner of education to withhold apportionments of public monies to a school district or city for failure to provide instruction in such classes and to compel attendance upon such instruction and for non-compliance with the rules the regents adopted.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-03 - held for consideration in education [A06603 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A06603-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6603
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 12, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK, ROBINSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BOYLAND, CLARK, GOTTFRIED, HOOPER, JACOBS, MAISEL, ORTIZ, RIVERA,
WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a curriculum
of study in federal, state and local government
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 801-b
2 to read as follows:
3 S 801-B. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION IN FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERN-
4 MENT. 1. IN ORDER TO PROMOTE A SPIRIT OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE CHILDREN OF
5 THE STATE AND MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL QUALITIES WHICH ARE ESSENTIAL IN
6 PREPARING TO MEET THE OBLIGATIONS OF CITIZENSHIP IN PEACE OR IN WAR, THE
7 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL PRESCRIBE
8 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION IN FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO BE
9 MAINTAINED AND FOLLOWED IN ALL THE SCHOOLS OF THE STATE. THE BOARDS OF
10 EDUCATION AND TRUSTEES OF THE SEVERAL CITIES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF THE
11 STATE SHALL REQUIRE INSTRUCTION TO BE GIVEN IN SUCH COURSES, BY THE
12 TEACHERS EMPLOYED IN THE SCHOOLS THEREIN. ALL PUPILS ATTENDING SUCH
13 SCHOOLS, OVER THE AGE OF EIGHT YEARS, SHALL ATTEND UPON SUCH INSTRUC-
14 TION.
15 SIMILAR COURSES OF INSTRUCTION SHALL BE PRESCRIBED AND MAINTAINED IN
16 PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN THE STATE, AND ALL PUPILS IN SUCH SCHOOLS OVER EIGHT
17 YEARS OF AGE SHALL ATTEND UPON SUCH COURSES. IF SUCH COURSES ARE NOT SO
18 ESTABLISHED AND MAINTAINED IN A PRIVATE SCHOOL, ATTENDANCE UPON INSTRUC-
19 TION IN SUCH SCHOOL SHALL NOT BE DEEMED SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIVALENT TO
20 INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO PUPILS OF LIKE AGE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE
21 CITY OR DISTRICT IN WHICH SUCH PUPILS RESIDE.
22 2. THE REGENTS SHALL DETERMINE THE SUBJECTS TO BE INCLUDED IN SUCH
23 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION IN FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE
24 PERIOD OF INSTRUCTION IN EACH OF THE GRADES IN SUCH SUBJECTS. THEY SHALL
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ADOPT RULES PROVIDING FOR ATTENDANCE UPON SUCH INSTRUCTION AND FOR SUCH
2 OTHER MATTERS AS ARE REQUIRED FOR CARRYING INTO EFFECT THE OBJECTS AND
3 PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
4 ENFORCEMENT OF THIS SECTION AND SHALL CAUSE TO BE INSPECTED AND SUPER-
5 VISE THE INSTRUCTION TO BE GIVEN IN SUCH SUBJECTS. THE COMMISSIONER MAY,
6 IN HIS DISCRETION, CAUSE ALL OR A PORTION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL MONEY TO
7 BE APPORTIONED TO A DISTRICT OR CITY TO BE WITHHELD FOR FAILURE OF THE
8 SCHOOL AUTHORITIES OF SUCH DISTRICT OR CITY TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN
9 SUCH COURSES AND TO COMPEL ATTENDANCE UPON SUCH INSTRUCTION, AS HEREIN
10 PRESCRIBED, AND FOR A NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THE RULES OF THE REGENTS
11 ADOPTED AS HEREIN PROVIDED.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
13 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
