Bill Text: NY A08845 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all schools have a calming space for students for praying, meditating, and calming themselves.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-18 - referred to education [A08845 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A08845-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8845 IN ASSEMBLY January 18, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all schools have a calming space for students The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 409-n 2 to read as follows: 3 § 409-n. Calming space. The board of education or trustees of every 4 school district or, in the case of the city school district of New York, 5 the chancellor, and every board of cooperative educational services, 6 charter school and nonpublic school within the state shall develop poli- 7 cies and procedures requiring that there is a room dedicated as a calm- 8 ing space available to students for activities including, but not limit- 9 ed to, praying, meditating, and calming themselves. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 11 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the 12 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary 13 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized 14 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. LBD09595-01-3
