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Assembly Bill A7634

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires all public schools to show its pupils the film "An Inconvenient Truth"

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2009-A7634 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §809-b, Ed L

2009-A7634 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all public schools to show its pupils the film "An Inconvenient Truth".

2009-A7634 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7634

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 17, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  P. RIVERA  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  BENJAMIN, DIAZ, ESPAILLAT, GREENE, HEASTIE, V. LOPEZ, ORTIZ,  PEOPLES,
  PERALTA, POWELL, RAMOS, J. RIVERA, N. RIVERA -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Education

AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all elemen-
  tary and secondary schools to show the motion picture "An Inconvenient
  Truth" to its students

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

  Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 809-b
to read as follows:
  S 809-B. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. 1. ALL PUPILS IN  GRADES  KINDERGARTEN
THROUGH  TWELVE  IN EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THE STATE SHALL ATTEND A SHOW-
ING, AT SUCH SCHOOL, OF THE MOTION PICTURE "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH".
  2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN  THE
COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10794-01-9

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