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Assembly Bill A1994A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

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

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2023-A1994 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4505
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §12, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8777
2021-2022: A2602, S8637
2025-2026: A6792, S1424

2023-A1994 - Summary

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

2023-A1994 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1994
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred 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
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11 of the education law is amended by adding a  new
 subdivision 11 to read as follows:
   11.  "RELIGIOUS  ATTIRE"  SHALL  MEAN ANY ATTIRE, CLOTHING, HAIRSTYLE,
 FACIAL HAIRSTYLE, OR HEAD COVERING WORN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE  REQUIRE-
 MENTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S RELIGION.
   §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 12 of the education law, as amended by
 chapter 102 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   1. No student shall be subjected to harassment or bullying by  employ-
 ees  or  students  on school property or at a school function; nor shall
 any student be subjected to discrimination based on a person's actual or
 perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group,  religion,
 religious  practice,  RELIGIOUS  ATTIRE, disability, sexual orientation,
 gender, or sex by school employees or students on school property or  at
 a  school  function.  Nothing  in this subdivision shall be construed to
 prohibit a denial of admission into, or  exclusion  from,  a  course  of
 instruction  based  on a person's gender that would be permissible under
 section thirty-two hundred one-a or paragraph (a) of subdivision two  of
 section  twenty-eight hundred fifty-four of this chapter and title IX of
 the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. section 1681, et. seq.),  or
 to  prohibit,  as discrimination based on disability, actions that would
 be permissible under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06632-01-3

2023-A1994A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4505
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §12, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8777
2021-2022: A2602, S8637
2025-2026: A6792, S1424

2023-A1994A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-A1994A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1994--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted
   as amended and recommitted 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:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  12  of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 102 of the laws  of  2012,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  No student shall be subjected to harassment or bullying by employ-
 ees or students on school property or at a school  function;  nor  shall
 any student be subjected to discrimination based on a person's actual or
 perceived  race,  color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion
 OR THE WEARING OF ANY ATTIRE, CLOTHING, OR  FACIAL  HAIR  IN  ACCORDANCE
 WITH  THE REQUIREMENTS OF HIS OR HER RELIGION, religious practice, RELI-
 GIOUS ATTIRE, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex  by  school
 employees  or students on school property or at a school function. Noth-
 ing in this subdivision shall be  construed  to  prohibit  a  denial  of
 admission  into,  or  exclusion from, a course of instruction based on a
 person's gender that  would  be  permissible  under  section  thirty-two
 hundred  one-a  or  paragraph  (a) of subdivision two of section twenty-
 eight hundred fifty-four of this chapter and title IX of  the  Education
 Amendments  of  1972 (20 U.S.C. section 1681, et. seq.), or to prohibit,
 as discrimination based on disability, actions that would be permissible
 under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06632-03-3

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