A08239 Summary:
| BILL NO | A08239 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S00460 |
| SPONSOR | Mikulin |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §305, Ed L | |
| Prohibits the commissioner from promulgating any rules or regulations which prevent schools from disallowing biologically male students at birth to participate on a team organized for females where a school determines such biological male student's participation would have an adverse effect on the physical or emotional safety of female participants, or would adversely impact a female student's ability to participate successfully in interschool athletic competition. | |
A08239 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8239 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MIKULIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting the department from promulgating certain rules and regulations concerning biologically male students at birth participating on teams organized for females 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 62 to read as follows: 3 62. The commissioner shall be prohibited from promulgating any rules 4 or regulations which prevent schools which offer interschool athletic 5 competition from disallowing biologically male students at birth to 6 participate on a team organized for females where a school determines 7 that such biological male student's participation would have an adverse 8 effect on the physical or emotional safety of female participants, or 9 would adversely impact a female student's ability to participate 10 successfully in such interschool athletic competition, including access 11 to individual awards, scholarships and other benefits of such successful 12 participation. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01103-01-5