STATE OF NEW YORK
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6478
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 5, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to separating interscho-
lastic athletic championships between public and non-public schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 63 to read as follows:
3 63. The commissioner shall require the public schools athletic league,
4 the New York state public high school athletic association, and other
5 high school interscholastic athletic associations hold separate state
6 interscholastic athletic championships for public and non-public
7 schools. Such requirement shall prohibit public and non-public schools
8 from holding interscholastic athletic competitions prior to any state
9 interscholastic athletic championships for a particular sport.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
11 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
12 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
13 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
14 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06460-01-5
