Bill Text: NY A01072 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A01072 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01072-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1072

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by  M.  of  A.  STIRPE,  BENEDETTO,  COOK,  PEOPLES-STOKES,
          L. ROSENTHAL, THIELE, WOERNER,  D. ROSENTHAL,  CRUZ,  TAYLOR,  HUNTER,
          FALL,  DICKENS, LUPARDO, SANTABARBARA, BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, GOODELL,
          MIKULIN,  MILLER,  MORINELLO,  RA,  WALSH,  J. M. GIGLIO,   MANKTELOW,
          BARCLAY,  FITZPATRICK,  SMULLEN, DeSTEFANO, McDONOUGH, BYRNES, McMAHON
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HAWLEY, RAMOS, STECK, TAGUE --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to allowing school
          districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in  district
          interscholastic sports

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  3235
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3235.  Home  instruction  students  and interscholastic sports. The
     4  board of education or trustee of a school  district  may  establish  and
     5  adopt  a  policy to allow a student who receives home instruction to try
     6  out for and participate on  a  school  district's  interschool  athletic
     7  team.  The  policy  shall  include,  but not be limited to the following
     8  provisions:
     9    1. The student shall be required to meet all the same responsibilities
    10  and standards of behavior and eligibility for practice  and  competition
    11  as a public school student enrolled in the school district participating
    12  on the interschool athletic team including but not limited to the health
    13  examination, immunization, and age eligibility requirements;
    14    2.  The student shall annually meet all academic requirements pursuant
    15  to section 100.10 of commissioner regulations; provided, however, that a
    16  board of education or trustee of a school  district  may  require  addi-
    17  tional academic eligibility requirements;
    18    3.  The  student shall only be eligible to try out for and participate
    19  on their school district of residence's interschool athletic team; and
    20    4. Transportation shall be provided by the parent or guardian  of  the
    21  student.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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