Bill Text: NY A04576 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A04576 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04576-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4576

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SIMONE, RAMOS, REYES, BRONSON, LAVINE, GLICK,
          SEAWRIGHT,  DINOWITZ,  HYNDMAN,  GALLAGHER,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  EPSTEIN,
          SIMON, FORREST -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the board of
          education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to
          establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgen-
          der or gender non-conforming students

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

     1    Section 1. Section 13 of the education law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  Policies  and  procedures  that ensure that schools do not treat a
     4  transgender or gender non-conforming student differently  from  the  way
     5  they  treat  other  students  of  the  same  gender  identity  or gender
     6  expression that include, but are not limited to policies which:
     7    a. ensure that schools and school employees treat students consistent-
     8  ly with their gender identity or expression,  including  using  pronouns
     9  and  names  consistent with the student's gender identity or expression,
    10  even if their education records or identification documents  indicate  a
    11  different  sex. Schools shall not require that students obtain a medical
    12  diagnosis, treatment, or identification  documents  that  reflect  their
    13  gender identity or expression as a prerequisite to treating the students
    14  consistent with their gender identity or expression;
    15    b.  allow  students  to  participate  in sex-segregated activities and
    16  access sex-segregated facilities, including but  not  limited  to  rest-
    17  rooms,  locker rooms, athletics teams, student organizations, single-sex
    18  classes, and student housing or overnight accommodations,  in  a  manner
    19  consistent with the student's gender identity or expression; and
    20    c.  protect  students'  privacy related to their transgender or gender
    21  non-conforming status, including their birth name  or  sex  assigned  at
    22  birth,  and allow students to request that a school amend information in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05392-01-3
        A. 4576                             2

     1  the student's education records relating to  their  gender  identity  or
     2  expression  that  is  inaccurate,  misleading,  or  in  violation of the
     3  student's privacy rights.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.