STATE OF NEW YORK
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7404
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring student
athletes participating in public school sponsored athletics complete
anti-bullying, anti-hazing and anti-harassment training
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 63 to read as follows:
3 63. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to estab-
4 lish uniform statewide protocols to make participation in all public
5 school sponsored athletics, in grades seven through twelve, subject to
6 mandatory anti-bullying, anti-hazing and anti-harassment training for
7 student athletes and their guardians each season. The department shall
8 develop parameters for such a class, and each district's athletics
9 director shall be tasked with formulating the manner in which student
10 athletes and their guardians complete such training. Failure to complete
11 the training would bar the student athlete from participating in such
12 athletics until the training is completed.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
14 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
15 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
16 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
17 to 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.
LBD11114-01-5
