New York Senate Bill S04505 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4505--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 9, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. LIU, MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee 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 his or her religion, religious practice, reli- 10 gious attire, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex by school 11 employees or students on school property or at a school function. Noth- 12 ing 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. LBD06632-02-3