Senate Bill S7574

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes Diwali as a school holiday in public schools in the city of New York

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Current Bill Status Via A7769 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S7574 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7769
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2586-a, amd §3635, Ed L

2023-S7574 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes Diwali as a school holiday in public schools in the city of New York.

2023-S7574 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7574 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7574
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing Diwali as
   a school holiday in certain public schools
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 2586-a
 to read as follows:
   § 2586-A. DIWALI AS A HOLIDAY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK.  THE  FIFTEENTH  DAY OF THE EIGHTH MONTH OF THE INDIAN CALENDAR IN
 EACH YEAR, KNOWN AS DIWALI, IS HEREBY MADE AND DECLARED TO BE A  HOLIDAY
 IN ALL THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK AND SUCH PUBLIC SCHOOLS SHALL NOT BE IN SESSION ON SUCH DAY.
   §  2. Subdivision 2-a of section 3635 of the education law, as amended
 by chapter 424 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
   2-a. The superintendent of each city school district, in a city having
 a population in excess of one million, shall  prepare  a  public  school
 calendar and shall notify officials of nonpublic schools to which trans-
 portation  has  been  requested  not later than the first day of June in
 each year, of the days on which the public schools will be in session in
 the following school year. Such school district which provides transpor-
 tation to nonpublic schools shall provide such  transportation  for  the
 same number of days as the public schools are open but shall not provide
 transportation  services  for  more than one hundred eighty days.  Offi-
 cials of each nonpublic school to which transportation is provided by  a
 city  school  district  of  a  city having a population in excess of one
 million may notify such district, not later than the first day  of  July
 of  each school year, of a maximum of five days, exclusive of Saturdays,
 Sundays or legal holidays upon which public schools are required  to  be
 closed,  on  which the public schools are scheduled to be closed, except
 that in any year in which the first or last day of Passover  and  Easter
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11774-01-3

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