A3638 • 2025

Provides for instruction in food and agriculture in elementary and high school

Agriculture Education

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Sponsor: Chris Tague
Last action: 2026-05-18
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Provides for instruction in food and agriculture in elementary and high school

Provides for instruction in food and agriculture in elementary and high school Provides for instruction in food and agriculture in schools using a curriculum established by the commissioner of education in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets.

What This Bill Does

Provides for instruction in food and agriculture in elementary and high school Provides for instruction in food and agriculture in schools using a curriculum established by the commissioner of education in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets.

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Bill History

2026-05-18 Assembly
HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN EDUCATION
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2025-01-28 Assembly
REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Provides for instruction in food and agriculture in elementary and high school
Provides for instruction in food and agriculture in schools using a curriculum established by the commissioner of education in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          3638

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 29, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. TAGUE, MILLER, E. BROWN, SMULLEN, HAWLEY, GALLA-
          HAN, MIKULIN, DAVILA, LEMONDES, RAGA -- read once and referred to  the
          Committee on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to instruction in food
          and agriculture

          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 804-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 804-E. AGRICULTURE CURRICULUM OR INSTRUCTION. 1.  THE  COMMISSIONER,
     4  IN  CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS, SHALL
     5  ESTABLISH CURRICULUM OR INSTRUCTION FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS  REGARDING  THE
     6  PRACTICE OF FARMING AND AGRICULTURE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HORTI-
     7  CULTURE, AGRICULTURAL LITERACY, FOOD PRODUCTION, FOOD MANUFACTURING, AND
     8  AGRIBUSINESS,  AMONG  OTHER  TOPICS. IN DETERMINING SUCH CURRICULUM, THE
     9  COMMISSIONER SHALL INCLUDE A HANDS-ON INSTRUCTIONAL  COMPONENT  THAT  IS
    10  AGE  APPROPRIATE AND DEMONSTRATES THE MATERIAL VALUE OF NEW YORK'S FARM-
    11  ING INDUSTRY.
    12    2. SCHOOLS MAY INCLUDE THE ABOVE  MATERIALS  AS  A  COMPONENT  OF  ITS
    13  SCIENCE CURRICULUM OR ANY OTHER WAY THE SCHOOL DEEMS APPROPRIATE.
    14    §  2. This act shall take effect the first of July next succeeding the
    15  date on which it shall have become a law,  and  shall  apply  to  school
    16  years commencing on or after such date. Effective immediately, the addi-
    17  tion,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for
    18  the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized  to
    19  be made and completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04654-01-5