A 6490 New York Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Requires instruction in arts and music education to be incorporated into curriculums for all public school students

Summary

Requires instruction in arts and music education to be incorporated into curriculums for all public school students; requires school districts to ensure that appropriately certified teachers are providing such education; authorizes rules and regulations consistent with such provisions.

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Mar 5, 2025 Last action Jan 7, 2026

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What changed between versions

A6490A → A6490B · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to add several new sponsors and to update the legislative history to reflect that the bill has been reported back from committee with amendments. The core text regarding arts and music education standards remains substantively unchanged, though minor formatting adjustments were made to the line breaks in the requirements section.

TECHNICAL

Added nine new sponsors to the bill: RAGA, SEAWRIGHT, ZINERMAN, LEVENBERG, SCHIAVONI, McMAHON, VALDEZ, RA, MILLER, MANKTELOW, DeSTEFANO, RAMOS, GRIFFIN, K. BROWN, TORRES, SIMPSON, and NORBER.

Updated the legislative history to indicate the bill was 'again reported from said committee with amendments' and changed the document identifier from LBD04108-02-5 to LBD04108-03-5.

Adjusted line breaks in the requirements section, removing the word 'all' before 'public schools' and splitting the sentence about rules and regulations across two lines.

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Committee

Amendments

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO EDUCATION

lower

Apr 23, 2025

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 6490B

lower

Apr 23, 2025

Lower · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION

lower

Apr 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 6490A

lower

Apr 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION

lower

Mar 5, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO EDUCATION

lower

1 primary · 73 co-sponsors