New York A 3500: Requires certain text-books to reference the Sea of Japan as also the East Sea

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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3500
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, SIMON
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FITZPATRICK, HEVESI, McDONOUGH, RA
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain
text-books to reference the Sea of Japan as also the East Sea
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 706 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 706. Reference to Sea of Japan. Any text-book approved and issued
4 pursuant to section seven hundred one of this article which refers to
5 the Sea of Japan shall also refer to such sea as the East Sea.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
7 the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to text-
8 books approved and issued on or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01205-01-3