Assembly Bill A8466

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to instruction on the history of people with disabilities

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A8466 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2352
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §801, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10852, S7930
2013-2014: A2006, S1703
2015-2016: S2962
2017-2018: S1019
2019-2020: S3001

2011-A8466 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to instruction on the history of people with disabilities.

2011-A8466 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8466

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 17, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to instruction on the
  history of people with disabilities

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 801 of the education law, as added
by chapter 265 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  5.  The  regents  shall make available to all elementary AND SECONDARY
schools in the  state  suitable  curriculum  materials  to  aid  in  the
instruction of pupils in grades kindergarten through [six] TWELVE in the
understanding and acceptance of children with disabilities as defined in
section forty-four hundred one of this chapter.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law, and  shall  apply  to  all
school years which commence on or after its effective date.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06862-01-1

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