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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. RHOADS -- 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 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.
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