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Senate Bill S9114

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a study regarding the mass starvation in Ireland from 1845 until 1850

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2025-S9114 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education

2025-S9114 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on the mass starvation in Ireland from 1845 until 1850 within the state; provides a report shall be delivered which includes detailed results of the survey, the extent the survey data submitted was compliant with section eight hundred one of the education law, and if needed, recommendations to strengthen provisions of law if not compliant.

2025-S9114 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9114 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9114
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT in relation to  authorizing  the  commissioner  of  education  to
   conduct  a  study regarding courses of study on the mass starvation in
   Ireland from 1845 until 1850 within the state
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The commissioner of education is authorized and directed to
 conduct a survey regarding instruction on the mass starvation in Ireland
 from  1845 until 1850 within the state. Such survey shall focus on iden-
 tifying which school districts subject to section eight hundred  one  of
 the  education  law  provide  instruction  on  such  mass  starvation in
 Ireland.  Such survey shall include as appropriate, questions on how the
 district is meeting the learning standards for instruction  requirements
 on  such  mass  starvation  in  Ireland from 1845 until 1850 pursuant to
 section eight hundred one of the education law.  Such survey shall  also
 require  an  attestation  from  each school district superintendent that
 indicates instruction related to  the  mass  starvation  in  Ireland  is
 provided  at  all  appropriate  grade  levels in compliance with section
 eight hundred one of the education law.
   § 2. Findings shall include detailed results of the survey, the extent
 the survey data submitted was compliant with section eight  hundred  one
 of  the  education  law,  and  if  needed, recommendations to strengthen
 provisions of law if not compliant. A report of  the  findings  of  such
 survey  shall  be  delivered to the governor, the temporary president of
 the senate, the speaker of the assembly,  the  minority  leader  of  the
 senate  and  the  minority  leader  of the assembly the first of January
 following the effective date of this act  or  one  hundred  twenty  days
 after the effective date of this act, whichever is later.
   § 3. Each school district that does not respond to such survey or does
 not  affirmatively  attest that such instruction is provided pursuant to
 section two of this act shall prepare and implement a corrective  action
 plan  to  comply  with the instruction required by section eight hundred
 one of the education law. Such corrective action plan shall be submitted
 for approval by the commissioner of education in a timeframe,  and  form
 and format, acceptable to the commissioner.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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