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S04505 Summary:

BILL NOS04505A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A01994-A
 
SPONSORLIU
 
COSPNSRADDABBO, CHU, MAY, MYRIE
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §12, Ed L
 
Prohibits discrimination of students on school property or at a school function based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair.
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S04505 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         4505--A
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 9, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU, MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting  discrimi-
          nation of students on school property or at a school function based on
          religious attire, clothing or facial hair
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  12  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  102  of  the  laws  of 2012, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. No student shall be subjected to harassment or bullying by  employ-
     5  ees  or  students  on school property or at a school function; nor shall
     6  any student be subjected to discrimination based on a person's actual or
     7  perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic  group,  religion
     8  or  the  wearing  of  any attire, clothing, or facial hair in accordance
     9  with the requirements of his or her religion, religious practice,  reli-
    10  gious  attire,  disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex by school
    11  employees or students on school property or at a school function.  Noth-
    12  ing  in  this  subdivision  shall  be  construed to prohibit a denial of
    13  admission into, or exclusion from, a course of instruction  based  on  a
    14  person's  gender  that  would  be  permissible  under section thirty-two
    15  hundred one-a or paragraph (a) of subdivision  two  of  section  twenty-
    16  eight  hundred  fifty-four of this chapter and title IX of the Education
    17  Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. section 1681, et. seq.), or  to  prohibit,
    18  as discrimination based on disability, actions that would be permissible
    19  under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06632-02-3
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