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This page will show some of the New York State bills that have been submitted by our state legislators. We will split them into the Bills To Support, and the Bills To Fight.
Bills To Support
Good bills we need to fight for when it comes to our children/school:
A8579 (Salka - R)
Prohibits courses in critical race theory from being taught in schools.
A8336 (Martucci - R)
Prohibits the state or political subdivisions from imposing a mask mandate in schools and daycares; leaves such decisions to the local school district, non-public school or daycare.
S7392 (Martucci - R)
Relates to eliminating the mask requirement in day care centers for children 5 and under.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s7392
A7100 (DiPietro - R)
Prohibits mandatory COVID-19 vaccination; limits civil liability of employers; prohibits requiring vaccination for education, employment, travel or other activities; enacts a vaccine bill of rights.
S6107 (Palumbo - R)
A1894 (Santabarbara - R)
Relates to the use of a standardized immunization exemption form.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A1894
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s6107
S6747 (Lanza - R)
Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the novel coronavirus/COVID-19 for children, incapacitated persons, or students or staff of employment institutions or day care facilities; prohibits requiring people to carry or present evidence of having received the COVID-19 vaccine.
S5157 (Lanza - R)
A7042 (DiPietro - R)
Establishes a claim for strictly liable against the state for any injury caused by the administration of an immunization which is mandated by a state law; gives the court of claims the power and jurisdiction to hear such a claim.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S5157
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a7042
S4376 (Oberacker - R)
A4269 (Salka - R)
Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the coronavirus.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s4376
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A4269
S3659 (Ortt - R)
A5277 (DiPietro - R)
Establishes a claim for strictly liable against the state for any injury caused by the administration of an immunization which is mandated by a state law; gives the court of claims the power and jurisdiction to hear such a claim.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s3659
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A5277
S2677 (Gallivan - R)
Relates to a religious exemption from vaccination requirements.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S2677
A8253 (Schmitt - R)
Prohibits instruction on critical race theory within the state
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a8253
Bills To Fight
Bills in New York that take the parents out of the equation and ignore parental consent:
A8870 (Rosenthal - D)
Requires every middle school and every high school to provide instruction on vaccine science, including vaccine history and development, effects on the immune system, vaccine-preventable diseases and their spread, and vaccine safety and testing.
A8398 (Dinowitz - D)
Limits exemptions from immunization requirements by local governments and private entities to medical exemptions; repeals religious exemptions for certain post-secondary students.
A8378 (Dinowitz - D)
Authorizes the commissioner of health to develop and supervise the execution of a program of immunization against COVID-19 for purposes of state aid to schools; requires immunization against COVID-19 for attendance at school.
S7320 (Hoylman - D)
Relates to the definition of administration with respect to immunization to prevent COVID-19 for children between the ages of two and eighteen years of age
S6495 (Hoylman - D)
A7829 (Dinowitz - D)
Mandatory Covid-19 shots for college students
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S6495
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a7829
S4244C (Krueger - D)
A6564C (Fahy - D)
Permits any child who is at least fourteen years of age to have administered to himself or herself certain immunizations required or recommended by law
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s4244
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/a6564/amendment/c
S2276 (Hoylman - D)
A2316 (Dinowitz - D)
Mandatory flu shots for K-12
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s2276
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/a2316
S3041 (Kruger - D)
A3192 (Fahy - D)
Permits any child who is at least fourteen years of age to have administered to himself or herself certain immunizations required or recommended by law
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s3041
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a3192
S2584A (Brouk - D)
A6616 (Nolan- D)
Relates to comprehensive sexuality education in schools
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s2584/amendment/a
S1929 (Jackson - D)
A808 (O'Donnell - D)
Requires school districts and charter schools to include instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions, and lifeways of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s1929
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a808/amendment/b
S1729 (Hoylman - D)
A817 (Seawright - D)
Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s1729
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a817
S937 (Kruger - D)
A822 (Paulin - D)
Provides treatment for sexually transmitted diseases to minors without a parent's or guardian's consent
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s937
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a822
Bills To Be Aware Off
S4391 (Parker - D)
Relates to the application of the dignity for all students act; removes language that the dignity for all students act does not apply to private, religious or denominational educational institutions.
S4392 (Parker - D)
A3723 (Solages - D)
Relates to making certain provisions applicable to public schools relating to instruction in civility, citizenship and character education
S833 (Hoylman - D)
A469 (Rozic - D)
Requires the public school curriculum for children in kindergarten through grade twelve to include a minimum of two hours per week instruction in civics lessons
A7161 (Richardson - D)
Mandates comprehensive, medically accurate and age appropriate sex education be taught in all public schools, grades one through twelve; provides that the commissioner of education will create and establish a curriculum to accomplish such goal within one year of the effective date of this legislation.
A6412 (McMahon - D)
Relates to mandating education in consent in schools
S369 (Hoylman - D)
A840 (Gottfried - D)
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.