Bill Text: NY A08038 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to establish a uniform dress code across all public high schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A08038 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08038-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8038

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 13, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the commis-
          sioner of education establish a uniform dress code across  all  public
          high schools

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 60 to read as follows:
     3    60. The commissioner shall establish a  uniform  dress  code  for  all
     4  public  high  schools. Such uniform dress code shall include, but not be
     5  limited to:
     6    (a) the length, color, cut, style, and condition of clothing  a  pupil
     7  is required to wear;
     8    (b) any logos and/or designs required to be on the pupils' clothing;
     9    (c)  if  any logos and/or designs not specified under paragraph (b) of
    10  this subdivision are permitted to be on the pupils' clothing;
    11    (d) when and where the uniform dress code shall be in effect; and
    12    (e) disciplinary procedures for pupils who do  not  comply  with  such
    13  uniform dress code.
    14    §  2.  Section  3604  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    15  subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
    16    8-a. No public high school within the state shall be entitled  to  any
    17  portion of such school moneys on such apportionment unless the report of
    18  the  trustees  or board of education for the preceding school year shall
    19  show that the public high school implemented and  enforced  the  uniform
    20  dress  code established under subdivision sixty of section three hundred
    21  five of this chapter.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    23  the  date  on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to school
    24  years commencing on and after  such  date.  Effective  immediately,  the
    25  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    26  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    27  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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