S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6792
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 14, 2025
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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, 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 THE STUDENT'S 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.
§ 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
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