S4544 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Prohibits discrimination against and harassment or bullying of students by other students on school property or at a school function; requires schools to investigate reports of bullying; requires schools to adopt a written, plain-language anti-bullying and harassment policy; requires school employees to report incidents of bullying or harassment.
- Title
- Enacts the "Jack Reid Law: Protect All Students Act"
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- Signed by Governor
- Latest action date
- 2025-10-23
- Introduced
- 2025-02-06
- Active version
- S4544B
- Same as
- A5403
- Law section
- Education Law
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- Andrew Gounardes State Senator, District 26
Heard in committee
- Ways and Means NY State Assembly committee
- Education NY State Senate committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A5403 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Substituted for
- A5403 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Rules, 2025-06-09
- Education, 2025-05-20 Referred to committee; referred to Finance