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Senate Bill S4669
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 14th Senate District
Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
(D) 11th Senate District
(D, WF) 47th Senate District
(R, C) 3rd Senate District
2025-S4669 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A5859
- Law Section:
- Executive Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §296, Exec L
2025-S4669 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Enacts the "assuring college campus and educational safety and support (ACCESS) act" relating to harassment of students and applicants at educational institutions; describes the circumstances under which harassment at educational institutions is an unlawful discriminatory practice; describes the circumstances under which an educational institution is deemed to have permitted harassment; describes additional circumstances under which a college or university is deemed to have permitted harassment.
2025-S4669 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S4669 SPONSOR: COMRIE TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the executive law, in relation to harassment of students and applicants at certain educational institutions PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The ACCESS Act would strengthen protections under the State Human Rights Law against unlawful discriminatory practices at educational insti- tutions, including by aligning the protections afforded students with the protections that the law presently provides to employees, with the goal of encouraging educational institutions to more effectively protect students from discriminatory harassment. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 titles the bill the "assuring college campus and educational safety and support (ACCESS) act".
2025-S4669 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4669 2025-2026 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 11, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, STAVISKY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to harassment of students and applicants at certain educational institutions THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "assuring college campus and educational safety and support (ACCESS) act". § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 296 of the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 202 and 748 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 4. (A) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an educa- tional institution to deny the use of its facilities to any person otherwise qualified, OR WITH RESPECT TO ANY PROGRAM, CLASS OR ACTIVITY, TO EXCLUDE FROM PARTICIPATION, DENY THE BENEFITS THEREOF, OR SUBJECT TO DISCRIMINATION, or to permit the harassment of any student or applicant, by reason of [his] SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S race, color, religion, disability, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, age, marital status, or status as a victim of domestic violence, except that any such institution which establishes or maintains a policy of educating persons of one sex exclusively may admit students of only one sex. (B) FOR THE PURPOSES OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, HARASSMENT IS AN UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE WHEN IT SUBJECTS AN INDIVIDUAL TO INFERIOR TERMS, CONDITIONS OR PRIVILEGES OF SERVICES, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH HARASSMENT WOULD BE CONSIDERED SEVERE OR PERVASIVE UNDER PRECEDENT APPLIED TO HARASSMENT CLAIMS, BECAUSE OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S MEMBERSHIP IN ONE OR MORE OF THE PROTECTED CATEGORIES LISTED IN PARA- GRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION. THE FACT THAT SUCH INDIVIDUAL DID NOT EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06519-05-5
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