File #: Int 1381-2025    Version: * Name: LGBTQIA+ resource guide for middle and high school students.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Education
On agenda: 9/10/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to an LGBTQIA+ resource guide for middle and high school students
Sponsors: Crystal Hudson, Tiffany Cabán, Lincoln Restler
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require that on any student portal maintained by the Department of Education (DOE), the DOE provide to middle and high school students a resource guide on LGBTQIA+ programs and services available for middle and high school students.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1381, 2. Int. No. 1381, 3. September 10, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1381

 

By Council Member Hudson, Cabán and Restler

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to an LGBTQIA+ resource guide for middle and high school students

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

 

Section 1. Chapter 8 of title 21-A of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-970 to read as follows:

§ 21-970 LGBTQIA+ student resource guide. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Middle and high school. The term "middle and high school" means any school of the city school district that contains any combination of grades from grade 6 through grade 12.

LGBTQIA+. The term “LGBTQIA+” means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, or any diverse sexual orientation or gender identity, including gender non-conforming, two-spirit, or same-gender-loving.

b. On any online student portal maintained by the department, the department shall make available to students in middle and high school a resource guide on LGBTQIA+ programs and services available to students at middle and high schools.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

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