STATE OF NEW YORK
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1424
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. LIU, ADDABBO, MAY, MYRIE, WEBB -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Education
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 the student's religion, religious practice,
10 religious attire, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex by
11 school employees or students on school property or at a school function.
12 Nothing 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.
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