STATE OF NEW YORK
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5954
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting students
from possessing cellphones during classroom instruction
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 2801 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 380 of the laws of 2001, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 a. provisions regarding conduct, dress and language deemed appropriate
5 and acceptable on school property, including a school function, and
6 conduct, dress and language deemed unacceptable and inappropriate on
7 school property, including a school function, and provisions regarding
8 acceptable civil and respectful treatment of teachers, school adminis-
9 trators, other school personnel, students and visitors on school proper-
10 ty, including a school function, including the appropriate range of
11 disciplinary measures which may be imposed for violation of such code,
12 and the roles of teachers, administrators, other school personnel, the
13 board of education and parents, and provisions prohibiting students from
14 possessing cellphones during classroom instruction;
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
16 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
17 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
18 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
19 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.
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