New York A 3966: Requires instruction on the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. capitol

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A03966 Summary:

BILL NOA03966 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06123

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SPONSORLavine

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COSPNSRGlick, Simone, Raga, Reyes, Schiavoni, Steck, Levenberg, Burroughs, Lunsford, Shimsky, Dinowitz,
 Lee, Hevesi, Davila, Tapia, Seawright, Ramos, Paulin

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §801, Ed L

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Requires instruction on the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. capitol and its aftermath in all schools in the state.

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BILL NOA03966 

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01/30/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3966

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE, GLICK, SIMONE -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring instruction
 on the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the United States capitol and
 its aftermath

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 801 of the education law,
 2 as amended by section 27 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020,
 3 are amended to read as follows:
 4 1. In order to promote a spirit of patriotic and civic service and
 5 obligation and to foster in the children of the state moral and intel-
 6 lectual qualities which are essential in preparing to meet the obli-
 7 gations of citizenship in peace or in war, the regents of The University
 8 of the State of New York shall prescribe courses of instruction in
 9 patriotism, citizenship, civic education and values, our shared history
 10 of diversity, the role of religious tolerance in this country, and human
 11 rights issues, with particular attention to the study of the inhumanity
 12 of genocide, slavery (including the freedom trail and underground rail-
 13 road), the Holocaust, [and] the mass starvation in Ireland from 1845 to
 14 1850, and the January sixth, two thousand twenty-one insurrection at the
 15 United States capitol and its aftermath, to be maintained and followed
 16 in all the schools of the state. The boards of education and trustees of
 17 the several cities and school districts of the state shall require
 18 instruction to be given in such courses, by the teachers employed in the
 19 schools therein. All pupils attending such schools, over the age of
 20 eight years, shall attend upon such instruction.
 21 Similar courses of instruction shall be prescribed and maintained in
 22 private schools in the state, and all pupils in such schools over eight
 23 years of age shall attend upon such courses. If such courses are not so
 24 established and maintained in a private school, attendance upon instruc-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07826-01-5

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 1 tion in such school shall not be deemed substantially equivalent to
 2 instruction given to pupils of like age in the public schools of the
 3 city or district in which such pupils reside.
 4 3. The regents shall determine the subjects to be included in such
 5 courses of instruction in patriotism, citizenship, civic education and
 6 values, our shared history of diversity, the role of history of diversi-
 7 ty, the role of religious tolerance in this country, and human rights
 8 issues, with particular attention to the study of the inhumanity of
 9 genocide, slavery (including the freedom trail and underground rail-
 10 road), the Holocaust, [and] the mass starvation in Ireland from 1845 to
 11 1850, and the January sixth, two thousand twenty-one insurrection at the
 12 United States capitol and its aftermath, and in the history, meaning,
 13 significance and effect of the provisions of the constitution of the
 14 United States, the amendments thereto, the declaration of independence,
 15 the constitution of the state of New York and the amendments thereto,
 16 and the period of instruction in each of the grades in such subjects.
 17 They shall adopt rules providing for attendance upon such instruction
 18 and for such o