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S 8501 NY

Allows school districts to opt out of observing any state-designated cultural or religious holiday

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Sep 10, 2025

Latest action (Jan 7, 2026) REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Summary

Allows school districts to opt out of observing any state-designated cultural or religious holiday when less than ten percent of the school population observes such state-designated cultural or religious holiday.

Sponsor (1)
1 coauthor / cosponsor

Action history (2)
  1. Sep 10, 2025 REFERRED TO RULES · upper
  2. Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO EDUCATION · upper

Text versions (2)

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  • S8501 · HTML
  • S8501 · PDF

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