New York A 142: Relates to prohibiting animal hatching projects in schools

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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142
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, FERNANDEZ, PAULIN -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to animal hatching
projects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 809 of the education law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
3 c. No school district, school principal, administrator, or teacher
4 shall require, permit, or conduct a lesson or experimental study using
5 an animal in a hatching project in any such school or during any activ-
6 ity conducted under the auspices of such school whether or not the
7 activity takes place on the premises of such school.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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