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A07768 Summary:

BILL NOA07768
 
SAME ASSAME AS S07573
 
SPONSORColton
 
COSPNSRLee, 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
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §§3604 & 3635, Ed L
 
Declares Asian Lunar New Year a school holiday.
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A07768 Actions:

BILL NOA07768
 
06/07/2023referred to ways and means
06/09/2023reported referred to rules
06/09/2023reported
06/09/2023rules report cal.804
06/09/2023ordered to third reading rules cal.804
06/10/2023passed assembly
06/10/2023delivered to senate
06/10/2023REFERRED TO RULES
06/10/2023SUBSTITUTED FOR S7573
06/10/20233RD READING CAL.1840
06/10/2023PASSED SENATE
06/10/2023RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
09/07/2023delivered to governor
09/09/2023signed chap.359
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A07768 Committee Votes:

WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Weinstein DATE:06/09/2023AYE/NAY:33/1 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules
WeinsteinAyeRaAye
GlickAyeFitzpatrickAye
PretlowAyeHawleyAye
ColtonAyeBlankenbushAye
CookAyeNorrisAye
AubryAyeBrabenecNay
BenedettoAyePalmesanoAye
WeprinAyeWalshAye
RamosAyeDeStefanoAye
BraunsteinAyeManktelowAye
McDonaldAyeSmullenAye
RozicExcused
DinowitzAye
JoynerAye
MagnarelliAye
ZebrowskiAye
BronsonAye
DilanAye
SeawrightAye
HyndmanAye
WalkerAye
Bichotte HermelAye
SimonAye
CruzAye

RULES Chair:Pretlow DATE:06/09/2023AYE/NAY:27/0 Action: Favorable
HeastieExcusedBarclayAye
WeinsteinAyeHawleyAye
PretlowAyeGiglioAye
CookAyeBlankenbushAye
GlickAyeNorrisAye
AubryAyeRaAye
DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye
ColtonAyePalmesanoAye
MagnarelliAyeReillyAye
PaulinExcused
Peoples-StokesAye
BenedettoAye
LavineAye
LupardoAye
ZebrowskiAye
ThieleAye
BraunsteinAye
DickensExcused
DavilaAye
HyndmanAye
RozicExcused
BronsonAye

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A07768 Floor Votes:

DATE:06/10/2023Assembly Vote  YEA/NAY: 144/0
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
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A07768 Memo:

NEW 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.
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A07768 Text:



 
                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.
                                                                   LBD11775-01-3

        A. 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.
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