Bill Text: NY S08637 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 8637 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S08637 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08637-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8637--A

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 23, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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:

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


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06137-04-2