A 1435: Requires all text-books approved by this article to reference the Sea of Japan as also the East Sea.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1435 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, COLTON, ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, SIMON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FITZPATRICK, HEVESI, McDONOUGH, RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain text-books to reference the Sea of Japan as also the East Sea The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 706 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 706. Reference to Sea of Japan. Any text-book approved and issued 4 pursuant to section seven hundred one of this article which refers to 5 the Sea of Japan shall also refer to such sea as the East Sea. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 7 the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to text- 8 books approved and issued on or after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04006-01-5