Bill Text: NY A10659 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-10 - referred to education [A10659 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10659-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10659
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 10, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the board of
          education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to
          establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgen-
          der or gender non-conforming students
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 13 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. Policies and procedures that ensure that schools  do  not  treat  a
     4  transgender  or  gender  non-conforming student differently from the way
     5  they treat  other  students  of  the  same  gender  identity  or  gender
     6  expression that include, but are not limited to policies which:
     7    a. ensure that schools and school employees treat students consistent-
     8  ly  with  their  gender identity or expression, including using pronouns
     9  and names consistent with the student's gender identity  or  expression,
    10  even  if  their education records or identification documents indicate a
    11  different sex. Schools shall not require that students obtain a  medical
    12  diagnosis,  treatment,  or  identification  documents that reflect their
    13  gender identity or expression as a prerequisite to treating the students
    14  consistent with their gender identity or expression;
    15    b. allow students to  participate  in  sex-segregated  activities  and
    16  access  sex-segregated  facilities,  including  but not limited to rest-
    17  rooms, locker rooms, athletics teams, student organizations,  single-sex
    18  classes,  and  student  housing or overnight accommodations, in a manner
    19  consistent with the student's gender identity or expression; and
    20    c. protect students' privacy related to their  transgender  or  gender
    21  non-conforming  status,  including  their  birth name or sex assigned at
    22  birth, and allow students to request that a school amend information  in
    23  the  student's  education  records  relating to their gender identity or
    24  expression that is  inaccurate,  misleading,  or  in  violation  of  the
    25  student's privacy rights.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10276-01-7