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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A07977Strengthens protections against discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on actual or perceived immigration status, and to improve implementation and oversight under the Dignity for All Students Act.
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Expands the list of protected classes in school anti-harassment, anti-bullying, and anti-discrimination rules to explicitly include immigration status (with no provisions on gender identity, pronouns, bathrooms, sports or transition care).
Acts of harassment and bullying shall include, but not be limited to, those acts based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, immigration status, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or sex.
Adds immigration status (including undocumented and mixed-status families) as a protected class in school anti-discrimination, anti-harassment and anti-bullying rules, requires training and reporting on it, and directs guidance on protecting immigrant students, so schools face stronger limits on any
protections based on immigration status shall also extend to students from mixed-status families, meaning families in which one or more members have different immigration statuses, including undocumented or noncitizen statuses.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends the Dignity for All Students Act to add "immigration status" (explicitly including undocumented, DACA, mixed-status families, etc.) as a protected category in school harassment, bullying, and discrimination rules; requires training, designated coordinators, commissioner guidance, and enhanced annual reporting disaggregated by protected class. This has no effect on firearms, abortion, or transgender issues. It restricts immigration enforcement by limiting schools' ability to act on or report immigration status and by protecting mixed-status families from bullying/discrimination.
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