A11430 • 2025

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

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Sponsor: Karen McMahon
Last action: 2026-05-15
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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

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

What This Bill Does

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

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2026-05-15 Assembly
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Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a study regarding the mass starvation in Ireland from 1845 until 1850
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.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11430

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      May 15, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. McMahon,
          Conrad, McDonald) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Educa-
          tion

        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:

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of education is authorized and directed to
     2  conduct a survey regarding instruction on the mass starvation in Ireland
     3  from  1845 until 1850 within the state. Such survey shall focus on iden-
     4  tifying which school districts subject to section eight hundred  one  of
     5  the  education  law  provide  instruction  on  such  mass  starvation in
     6  Ireland.  Such survey shall include as appropriate, questions on how the
     7  district is meeting the learning standards for instruction  requirements
     8  on  such  mass  starvation  in  Ireland from 1845 until 1850 pursuant to
     9  section eight hundred one of the education law.  Such survey shall  also
    10  require  an  attestation  from  each school district superintendent that
    11  indicates instruction related to  the  mass  starvation  in  Ireland  is
    12  provided  at  all  appropriate  grade  levels in compliance with section
    13  eight hundred one of the education law.
    14    § 2. Findings shall include detailed results of the survey, the extent
    15  the survey data submitted was compliant with section eight  hundred  one
    16  of  the  education  law,  and  if  needed, recommendations to strengthen
    17  provisions of law if not compliant. A report of  the  findings  of  such
    18  survey  shall  be  delivered to the governor, the temporary president of
    19  the senate, the speaker of the assembly,  the  minority  leader  of  the
    20  senate  and  the  minority  leader  of the assembly the first of January
    21  following the effective date of this act  or  one  hundred  twenty  days
    22  after the effective date of this act, whichever is later.
    23    § 3. Each school district that does not respond to such survey or does
    24  not  affirmatively  attest that such instruction is provided pursuant to
    25  section two of this act shall prepare and implement a corrective  action
    26  plan  to  comply  with the instruction required by section eight hundred

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13703-01-5
        A. 11430                            2

     1  one of the education law. Such corrective action plan shall be submitted
     2  for approval by the commissioner of education in a timeframe,  and  form
     3  and format, acceptable to the commissioner.
     4    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.