New York Senate Bill S03579 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3579 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 1, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 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 italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01205-01-3