Bill Text: NY A10486 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines anti-Semitism relating to the department of education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-29 - referred to education [A10486 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10486-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10486

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 29, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  -- (at request of M. of A. Slater,
          E. Brown) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to defining anti-Semitism

          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 115 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 115. Anti-Semitism. In reviewing, investigating, or deciding whether
     4  there  has  been a violation of any state law, rule, or regulation or of
     5  title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d  et  seq.)  on
     6  the  basis  of race, color, or national origin, based on an individual's
     7  actual or perceived shared Jewish ancestry or Jewish  ethnic  character-
     8  istics,  the  department  shall  take  into consideration as part of the
     9  department's assessment whether the practice is defined as anti-Semitism
    10  as such term is defined under the  International  Holocaust  Remembrance
    11  Alliance  on May twenty-sixth, two thousand sixteen, including contempo-
    12  rary examples of anti-Semitism.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15439-01-4