Bill Text: NY A07051 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the furnishing of programs and services to pupils who are home-instructed or enrolled in non-public schools upon request of persons in parental relation; provides that such programs and services shall include participation in intraschool, intramural, and extramural athletics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-12 - held for consideration in education [A07051 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A07051-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7051
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 19, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. BALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  the  provision  of
         certain  programs  and  services  to home-instructed pupils and pupils
         enrolled in non-public schools
         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 3204-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 3204-A. PROVISION OF CERTAIN PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO HOME-INSTRUCT-
    4  ED PUPILS AND PUPILS ENROLLED IN NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 1.  DEFINITIONS. AS
    5  USED  IN  THIS  SECTION,  THE  TERM  "PROGRAMS  AND SERVICES" SHALL MEAN
    6  PARTICIPATION IN INTRASCHOOL, INTRAMURAL AND EXTRAMURAL ATHLETICS PURSU-
    7  ANT TO REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
    8    2. THE SCHOOL AUTHORITIES OF ANY SCHOOL  DISTRICT  AND  ANY  COMMUNITY
    9  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  IN  THE  STATE  SHALL FURNISH PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO
   10  PUPILS WHO RESIDE IN SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND  ARE  HOME-INSTRUCTED  OR
   11  WHO  RESIDE  IN  SUCH  SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND ARE ENROLLED IN A NON-PUBLIC
   12  SCHOOL WHICH DOES NOT FURNISH SUCH PROGRAMS AND SERVICES, UPON THE WRIT-
   13  TEN REQUEST OF THE PERSONS IN PARENTAL RELATION TO ANY SUCH PUPIL.  SUCH
   14  A  REQUEST  SHALL  BE  FILED  WITH  THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL
   15  DISTRICT IN WHICH SUCH PUPIL RESIDES ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF  JUNE
   16  PRECEDING THE SCHOOL YEAR FOR WHICH THE REQUEST IS MADE.
   17    S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
   18  the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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