New York Senate Bill S02216 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2216 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, BAILEY -- 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 establishing Eid-al- Adha and Eid-al-Fitr as school holidays 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 3204-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3204-a. Eid-al-Adha and Eid-al-Fitr school holidays. 1. The days of 4 the Islamic lunar calendar designated to begin on the tenth day of the 5 month of Dhul Hijja and commonly known as "Eid-al-Adha", and the first 6 day of Shawwai known as Eid-al-Fitr shall be school holidays for all 7 public schools. 8 2. The school authorities of every public school are hereby authorized 9 and directed to cause all public schools within such districts to be 10 closed on Eid-al-Adha and Eid-al-Fitr. 11 § 2. Section 3604 of the education law is amended by adding a new 12 subdivision 7-a to read as follows: 13 7-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of any 14 calculation under subdivision seven or eight of this section, the 15 commissioner shall disregard any reduction resulting from observance of 16 Eid-al-Adha and Eid-al-Fitr and, if necessary, such observed holidays 17 shall be calculated as a session day. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 19 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amend- 20 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 21 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 22 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04927-01-5