Senate Bill S1424

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S1424 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §12, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8637
2023-2024: S4505

2025-S1424 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S1424 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1424 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1424
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU,  ADDABBO, MAY, MYRIE, WEBB -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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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