A00389 Summary:
| BILL NO | A00389 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S03436 |
| SPONSOR | Stirpe (MS) |
| COSPNSR | Benedetto, Cook, Peoples-Stokes, Rosenthal, Woerner, Cruz, Taylor, Hunter, Fall, Lupardo, Santabarbara, Brabenec, Mikulin, Miller, Morinello, Ra, Walsh, Giglio, Manktelow, Barclay, Fitzpatrick, Smullen, DeStefano, McDonough, McMahon, Gallagher, Buttenschon, Durso, Levenberg, Clark, Weprin, Kay, Lunsford, Angelino, Gallahan, Bendett, DiPietro, Maher, Kassay, Simpson, Berger, Hevesi, Pirozzolo, Blankenbush, Eachus, Lucas |
| MLTSPNSR | Hawley, Ramos, Steck, Tague |
| Add §3235, Ed L | |
| Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports. | |
A00389 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to allowing school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:: To allow home-schooled students to participate in interscholastic athletics. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:: Section 1 amends the education law by adding a new section 3235, which allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports. Section 2 provides that the act shall take effect immediately. JUSTIFICATION:: Currently, home-schooled students are prohibited from participating in interscholastic sports even though they are entitled to attend the schools that have the sport., It is fundamentally unfair to prohibit home-schooled students from participating in an important aspect of childhood development merely because their parents or guardians choose to home school them. The students have every right to attend the school, and there is no reduction in school taxes for parents or guardians who home-school their children. PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:: 2013-2014: A.6814/S.1715 - Referred to Education 2015-2016: A.3678-A/S.2175 - Referred to Education 2017-2018: A.445-A/S.465-A - Referred to Education/passed senate 2019-2020: A.706-A/S.5472-A - Referred to rules; senate Education 2021-2022: A.4775/S.8416 - Referred to Education 2023-2024: A.1072/S.1010 - Referred to Education FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:: None to the State. EFFECTIVE DATE:: This act shall take effect immediately.