What's happening
This bill requires humane education, including kindness and respect for animals, to be taught in all New York secondary schools.
Why it matters
Expands humane education requirements to secondary schools. , ensuring that older students receive instruction on topics like kindness and respect for animals, which were previously only mandated in elementary education.
Emphasizes compliance by tying funding to implementation. school districts that fail to provide this instruction risk losing eligibility for public school money, giving the mandate real enforcement power.
Directs the education commissioner to integrate humane education into existing curricula. , which means schools will need to adjust lesson plans and potentially provide teacher training or new materials, impacting how subjects like science, ethics, or social studies are taught.
Addresses broader social values by promoting legal and ethical treatment of animals. in the classroom, potentially shaping attitudes toward animal welfare and responsible citizenship among future generations.
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Who cares
Headline styles
Teach Humane Animal Treatment
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2137
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding the requirements for teaching humane education to secondary school students
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 809 of the education law, as amended by chapter 542 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
1. a. The officer, board or commission authorized or required to prescribe courses of instruction shall cause instruction to be given in every elementary school under state control or supported wholly or partly by public money of the state, in the humane treatment and protection of animals and the importance of the part they play in the economy of nature as well as the necessity of controlling the proliferation of animals which are subsequently abandoned and caused to suffer extreme cruelty. Such instruction shall be for such period of time during each school year as the board of regents may prescribe and may be joined with work in literature, reading, language, nature study or ethnology. Such weekly instruction may be divided into two or more periods.
b. The officer, board, or commission authorized or required to prescribe courses of instruction shall cause instruction to be given in every secondary school under state control or supported wholly or partly by public money of the state, in the humane treatment and protection of animals and the importance of the part they play in the economy of nature as well as the necessity of controlling the proliferation of animals which are subsequently abandoned and caused to suffer extreme cruelty. Such instruction shall include educating students on the principles of kindness to and respect for animals and observance of laws and rules pertaining to the humane treatment of animals. The commissioner shall determine how to incorporate such instruction in existing curric-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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ula and the commissioner shall promulgate any regulations needed to carry out such determination.
c. A school district shall not be entitled to participate in the public school money on account of any school or the attendance at any school subject to the provisions of this section, if the instruction required [hereby] pursuant to this section is not given therein.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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