Bill Text: NY S01010 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 14-2)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01010 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01010-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1010 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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. LBD00323-01-3