Bill Text: NY S01424 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1424

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits discrimination of students on school property or at a school function based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01424 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01424-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1424

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        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.
                                                                   LBD04370-01-5