Bill Text: NY A08777 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits discrimination of students on school property or at a school function based on religious attire.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A08777 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08777-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8777

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        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:

     1    Section 1. Section 11 of the education law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11.  "Religious  attire" shall mean any attire, clothing, or hairstyle
     4  worn in accordance with the requirements of an individual's religion.
     5    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 12 of the education law, as  amended  by
     6  chapter 102 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
     7    1.  No student shall be subjected to harassment or bullying by employ-
     8  ees or students on school property or at a school  function;  nor  shall
     9  any student be subjected to discrimination based on a person's actual or
    10  perceived  race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion,
    11  religious practice, religious attire,  disability,  sexual  orientation,
    12  gender,  or sex by school employees or students on school property or at
    13  a school function. Nothing in this subdivision  shall  be  construed  to
    14  prohibit  a  denial  of  admission  into, or exclusion from, a course of
    15  instruction based on a person's gender that would be  permissible  under
    16  section  thirty-two hundred one-a or paragraph (a) of subdivision two of
    17  section twenty-eight hundred fifty-four of this chapter and title IX  of
    18  the  Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. section 1681, et. seq.), or
    19  to prohibit, as discrimination based on disability, actions  that  would
    20  be permissible under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14088-01-9
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