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Senate Bill S7045

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Defines antisemitism for purposes of the education law

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2025-S7045 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4758
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §115, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10486

2025-S7045 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines antisemitism for purposes of certain reviews of practices by the department of education.

2025-S7045 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7045 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7045
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Educa-
   tion
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to defining antisemitism
 
   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 115 to
 read as follows:
   § 115. ANTISEMITISM. IN REVIEWING, INVESTIGATING, OR DECIDING  WHETHER
 THERE  HAS  BEEN A VIOLATION OF ANY STATE LAW, RULE, OR REGULATION OR OF
 TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000D  ET  SEQ.)  ON
 THE  BASIS  OF RACE, COLOR, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN, BASED ON AN INDIVIDUAL'S
 ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED SHARED JEWISH ANCESTRY OR JEWISH  ETHNIC  CHARACTER-
 ISTICS,  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  TAKE  INTO CONSIDERATION AS PART OF THE
 DEPARTMENT'S ASSESSMENT WHETHER THE PRACTICE IS DEFINED AS  ANTISEMITISM
 AS  SUCH  TERM  IS DEFINED UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE
 ALLIANCE ON MAY TWENTY-SIXTH, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN, INCLUDING  CONTEMPO-
 RARY EXAMPLES OF ANTISEMITISM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06465-03-5

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