Bill Text: NY S00714 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires courses of instruction to include information on "comfort women".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-17 - PRINT NUMBER 714A [S00714 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00714-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         714--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education  --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  courses  of
          instruction to include information on "comfort women"
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 and subdivision 3 of
     2  section 801 of the education law, as amended by chapter 574 of the  laws
     3  of 1997, are amended to read as follows:
     4    In  order to promote a spirit of patriotic and civic service and obli-
     5  gation and to foster in the children of the state moral and intellectual
     6  qualities which are essential in preparing to meet  the  obligations  of
     7  citizenship  in  peace  or  in war, the regents of The University of the
     8  State of New York shall prescribe courses of instruction in  patriotism,
     9  citizenship,  and  human rights issues, with particular attention to the
    10  study of the inhumanity of  genocide,  slavery  (including  the  freedom
    11  trail  and  underground railroad), the Holocaust, violence against women
    12  during periods of armed conflict (including the  comfort  women  of  the
    13  second world war), and the mass starvation in Ireland from 1845 to 1850,
    14  to  be  maintained  and  followed  in  all the schools of the state. The
    15  boards of education and  trustees  of  the  several  cities  and  school
    16  districts  of  the  state  shall require instruction to be given in such
    17  courses, by the teachers employed in the  schools  therein.  All  pupils
    18  attending  such  schools, over the age of eight years, shall attend upon
    19  such instruction.
    20    3. The regents shall determine the subjects to  be  included  in  such
    21  courses  of  instruction  in  patriotism,  citizenship, and human rights
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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