Senate Bill S8433

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to inclusive instruction and instructional materials

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • 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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2019-S8433 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10718
Current Committee:
Senate 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

2019-S8433 (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.

2019-S8433 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8433 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8433
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 29, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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
              

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