assembly Bill A10718

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to inclusive instruction and instructional materials

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Jul 01, 2020 referred to education

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A10718 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8433
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add & amd §804-e, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A808
2023-2024: A4375

A10718 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires school districts and charter schools to include instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions, and lifeways of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students.

A10718 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                  10718

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              July 1, 2020
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. O'Donnell)
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to inclusive  instruction
  and  instructional  materials; and providing for the repeal of certain
  provisions upon expiration thereof

  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 804-e
to read as follows:
  § 804-E. INCLUSIVE CURRICULUM OR INSTRUCTION. 1. SCHOOL DISTRICTS  AND
CHARTER  SCHOOLS  SHALL  INCLUDE INSTRUCTION ON THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC,
AND SOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS, AND LIFEWAYS OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS-
GENDER, AND QUEER PEOPLE, IN AN APPROPRIATE PLACE IN THE  CURRICULUM  OF
MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
  2. SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER SCHOOLS SHALL HAVE POLICIES AND PROCE-
DURES IN PLACE PERTAINING TO THE SELECTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS TO
IMPLEMENT  THE  REQUIREMENTS  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE OF THIS SECTION. WHEN
ADOPTING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR USE IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE DISTRICT,
SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER SCHOOLS SHALL ADOPT INCLUSIVE INSTRUCTIONAL
MATERIALS THAT PORTRAY THE CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC  DIVERSITY  OF  SOCIETY
INCLUDING  THE  POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS, AND LIFE-
WAYS OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER,  AND  QUEER  PEOPLE,  WHERE
APPROPRIATE.
  3. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
  A.  THE  TERM  "GAY"  MEANS  A MAN OR A MALE INDIVIDUAL WHOSE ENDURING
PHYSICAL, ROMANTIC, OR EMOTIONAL ATTRACTION IS TO ANOTHER  MAN  OR  MALE
INDIVIDUAL.
  B.  THE TERM "LESBIAN" MEANS A WOMAN OR FEMALE INDIVIDUAL WHOSE ENDUR-
ING PHYSICAL, ROMANTIC, OR EMOTIONAL ATTRACTION IS TO ANOTHER  WOMAN  OR
FEMALE INDIVIDUAL.
  C.  THE  TERM  "BISEXUAL"  MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS THE CAPACITY TO
FORM ENDURING PHYSICAL, ROMANTIC, OR  EMOTIONAL  ATTRACTION  TO  ANOTHER
INDIVIDUAL  OF  THE  SAME  SEX  OR  GENDER OR TO ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL OF A
DIFFERENT SEX  OR  GENDER.  BISEXUAL  INDIVIDUALS  MAY  EXPERIENCE  SUCH

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets