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A07768 Summary:
BILL NO | A07768 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S07573 |
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SPONSOR | Colton |
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COSPNSR | Lee, Braunstein, Zaccaro, Lucas, Rosenthal L, Jean-Pierre, Weinstein, Davila, Glick, Bichotte Hermelyn, Peoples-Stokes, Cook, Santabarbara, Hyndman, Epstein, Barrett, McMahon, Sayegh, Fall, Cunningham, Dickens, Bronson, Dinowitz, Williams, Weprin, Cruz, Gibbs, Ramos, McDonald, Benedetto, Zinerman, Rajkumar, Burdick, Pretlow, Shimsky, Thiele, Raga, Bores, Hunter, Paulin, Simon, Rozic, Meeks, Simone, Gunther, Clark, Stirpe, Taylor, Darling, Lunsford, Sillitti, Seawright, Lavine, Kim, Jacobson, Levenberg, Kelles, Mamdani, Gallagher, Wallace, Fahy |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §§3604 & 3635, Ed L | |
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Declares Asian Lunar New Year a school holiday. |
A07768 Actions:
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06/07/2023 | referred to ways and means | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/09/2023 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/09/2023 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/09/2023 | rules report cal.804 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/09/2023 | ordered to third reading rules cal.804 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/10/2023 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/10/2023 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/10/2023 | REFERRED TO RULES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/10/2023 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S7573 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/10/2023 | 3RD READING CAL.1840 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/10/2023 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/10/2023 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
09/07/2023 | delivered to governor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
09/09/2023 | signed chap.359 |
A07768 Committee Votes:
Weinstein | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Fitzpatrick | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Blankenbush | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Norris | Aye | ||||||
Aubry | Aye | Brabenec | Nay | ||||||
Benedetto | Aye | Palmesano | Aye | ||||||
Weprin | Aye | Walsh | Aye | ||||||
Ramos | Aye | DeStefano | Aye | ||||||
Braunstein | Aye | Manktelow | Aye | ||||||
McDonald | Aye | Smullen | Aye | ||||||
Rozic | Excused | ||||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | ||||||||
Joyner | Aye | ||||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
Bronson | Aye | ||||||||
Dilan | Aye | ||||||||
Seawright | Aye | ||||||||
Hyndman | Aye | ||||||||
Walker | Aye | ||||||||
Bichotte Hermel | Aye | ||||||||
Simon | Aye | ||||||||
Cruz | Aye | ||||||||
Heastie | Excused | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Blankenbush | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Norris | Aye | ||||||
Aubry | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | Brabenec | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Palmesano | Aye | ||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | Reilly | Aye | ||||||
Paulin | Excused | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Lavine | Aye | ||||||||
Lupardo | Aye | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
Thiele | Aye | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
Dickens | Excused | ||||||||
Davila | Aye | ||||||||
Hyndman | Aye | ||||||||
Rozic | Excused | ||||||||
Bronson | Aye | ||||||||
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A07768 Floor Votes:
Yes
Alvarez
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Flood
Yes
Kim
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Simpson
Yes
Anderson
Yes
Chandler-Waterm
Yes
Forrest
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Slater
Yes
Angelino
Yes
Chang
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lee
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ardila
Yes
Clark
Yes
Gallagher
Yes
Lemondes
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Colton
Yes
Gallahan
Yes
Levenberg
Yes
Pirozzolo
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Conrad
Yes ‡
Gandolfo
Yes ‡
Lucas
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gibbs
Yes
Lunsford
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stern
Yes
Beephan
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Giglio JA
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Raga
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Bendett
Yes
Cunningham
Yes
Giglio JM
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Rajkumar
Yes
Tague
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Curran
Yes
Glick
Yes
Maher
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Tannousis
Yes
Bichotte Hermel
Yes
Darling
Yes
Gonzalez-Rojas
Yes
Mamdani
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tapia
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
Davila
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blumencranz
Yes
De Los Santos
Yes
Gray
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Bores
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Gunther
Yes ‡
McDonough
ER
Rosenthal D
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Brabenec
Yes ‡
Dickens
Yes
Hawley
Yes
McGowan
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Walker
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Dilan
Yes ‡
Hevesi
Yes
McMahon
ER
Rozic
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Dinowitz
ER
Hunter
Yes
Meeks
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Brook-Krasny
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Brown E
Yes
Durso
Yes
Jackson
Yes
Miller
Yes
Seawright
ER
Weprin
ER
Brown K
Yes
Eachus
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Mitaynes
Yes
Septimo
Yes
Williams
Yes
Burdick
ER
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Shimsky
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Burgos
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jensen
Yes
Norris
Yes
Shrestha
Yes
Zaccaro
Yes
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Jones
Yes
Novakhov
Yes
Sillitti
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
Yes
Joyner
Yes ‡
O'Donnell
Yes
Simon
Yes
Zinerman
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Kelles
Yes
Otis
Yes
Simone
Yes
Mr. Speaker
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A07768 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)   BILL NUMBER: A7768 SPONSOR: Colton
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to declaring Asian Lunar New Year a school holiday   PURPOSE: To declare Asian Lunar New Year a public school holiday statewide.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1. Amends section 3604 subdivision 8 of the Education Law to declare that public schools statewide shall not be in session on Asian Lunar New Year. Section 2. Amends section 3635 subdivision 2-a of the Education Law to make conforming changes. Section 3 is the effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: Asian Americans have played a vital role in shaping our nation while continuously facing discrimination and violence in U.S. history. The Lunar New Year festival has been celebrated for thousands of years and much like other public holidays resembles importance and tradition. This holiday is one of the most important traditional holidays amongst the Asian community and is widely celebrated among the many Asian commu- nities within New York State.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New bill.   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: To be determined   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.
A07768 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7768 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 7, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, LEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to declaring Asian Lunar New Year a school holiday The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 3604 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 605 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 8. No school shall be in session on a Saturday, the first day of the 5 second lunar month after the winter solstice in the preceding calendar 6 year known as Asian Lunar New Year, or a legal holiday, except general 7 election day, Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday, and except 8 that driver education classes may be conducted on a Saturday. A defi- 9 ciency not exceeding four days during any school year caused by teach- 10 ers' attendance upon conferences held by superintendents of schools of 11 city school districts or other school districts employing superinten- 12 dents of schools shall be excused by the commissioner, notwithstanding 13 any provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a school 14 district may elect to schedule such conference days in the last two 15 weeks of August, subject to collective bargaining requirements pursuant 16 to article fourteen of the civil service law, and such days shall be 17 counted towards the required one hundred eighty days of session, 18 provided however, that such scheduling shall not alter the obligation of 19 the school district to provide transportation to students in non-public 20 elementary and secondary schools or charter schools. At least two such 21 conference days during such school year shall be dedicated to staff 22 attendance upon conferences providing staff development relating to 23 implementation of the new high learning standards and assessments, as 24 adopted by the board of regents. Notwithstanding any other provision of 25 law, rule or regulation to the contrary, school districts may elect to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11775-01-3A. 7768 2 1 use one or more of such allowable conference days in units of not less 2 than one hour each to provide staff development activities relating to 3 implementation of the new high learning standards and assessments. A 4 district making such election may provide such staff development on any 5 day during which sessions are allowed and apply such units to satisfy a 6 deficiency in the length of one or more daily sessions of instruction 7 for pupils as specified in regulations of the commissioner. The commis- 8 sioner shall assure that such conference days include appropriate school 9 violence prevention and intervention training, and may require that up 10 to one such conference day be dedicated for such purpose. 11 § 2. Subdivision 2-a of section 3635 of the education law, as amended 12 by chapter 424 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows: 13 2-a. The superintendent of each city school district, in a city having 14 a population in excess of one million, shall prepare a public school 15 calendar and shall notify officials of nonpublic schools to which trans- 16 portation has been requested not later than the first day of June in 17 each year, of the days on which the public schools will be in session in 18 the following school year. Such school district which provides transpor- 19 tation to nonpublic schools shall provide such transportation for the 20 same number of days as the public schools are open but shall not provide 21 transportation services for more than one hundred eighty days. Offi- 22 cials of each nonpublic school to which transportation is provided by a 23 city school district of a city having a population in excess of one 24 million may notify such district, not later than the first day of July 25 of each school year, of a maximum of five days, exclusive of Saturdays, 26 Sundays or legal holidays upon which public schools are required to be 27 closed, on which the public schools are scheduled to be closed, except 28 that in any year in which the first or last day of Passover and Easter 29 Sunday are separated by more than seven days, such officials may notify 30 the district of a maximum of ten days, but such school district will be 31 required to provide for transportation to such nonpublic school provided 32 that such five or ten additional days, whichever is applicable, are 33 limited to the following: the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 34 after Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the week in which public 35 schools are closed for spring recess, December twenty-fourth and the 36 week between Christmas day and New Year's day, the Tuesday, Wednesday, 37 Thursday and Friday after the observance of Washington's birthday, the 38 first day of the second lunar month after the winter solstice in the 39 preceding calendar year, known as Asian Lunar New Year, and, in the 40 boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens only, Anniversary Day as designated in 41 section twenty-five hundred eighty-six of this chapter. 42 § 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.