Bill Text: NY S01349 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school districts to provide information regarding water safety and swimming certification to certain parents or students upon enrollment; defines "water safety".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01349 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01349-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1349

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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  requiring  school
          districts  to  provide information regarding water safety and swimming
          certification to certain parents or students upon enrollment

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  3205 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. a. Beginning with the two thousand twenty-six--two  thousand  twen-
     4  ty-seven school year, each school district shall provide, to a parent or
     5  guardian who initially enrolls their child in the school, information on
     6  the  important  role water safety education courses and swimming lessons
     7  play in saving lives. The information must be provided electronically or
     8  in hard copy and must include local options  for  age-appropriate  water
     9  safety  courses  and swimming lessons that result in a certificate indi-
    10  cating successful completion, including courses and lessons offered  for
    11  free  or  at a reduced price. If the student is eighteen years of age or
    12  older, or is under the age of  twenty-one  and  is  enrolling  in  adult
    13  education classes, the information must be provided to the student.
    14    b. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "water safety" shall
    15  mean  age-appropriate  education  intended to promote safety in, on, and
    16  around bodies of water and reduce the risk of injury, including fatal or
    17  non-fatal drowning.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.



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