S 7045: Defines antisemitism for purposes of certain reviews of practices by the department of education.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7045 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa- tion AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to defining antisemitism 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 115 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 115. Antisemitism. In reviewing, investigating, or deciding whether 4 there has been a violation of any state law, rule, or regulation or of 5 title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.) on 6 the basis of race, color, or national origin, based on an individual's 7 actual or perceived shared Jewish ancestry or Jewish ethnic character- 8 istics, the department shall take into consideration as part of the 9 department's assessment whether the practice is defined as antisemitism 10 as such term is defined under the International Holocaust Remembrance 11 Alliance on May twenty-sixth, two thousand sixteen, including contempo- 12 rary examples of antisemitism. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06465-03-5