NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A4062
SPONSOR: Brook-Krasny TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to the
participation of home-schooled pupils in certain school activities
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The bill's purpose is to allow home
schooled students to participate in driver's education and interscholas-
tic athletic activities which are offered by the school within which
district the student resides in.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: This bill requires amendment of
section 806a and section 3202-a of the education law.
Section 1 adds a new subdivision 3 to section 806-a of the education
law. Whenever driver's education is offered within a district, a child
residing within the district but not attending the school at which the
course is offered, will be allowed to participate in the source,
provided the child meets the requirements and pays fees related, if
there are any. Section 2 adds a new section 3202-a to the education law.
Whenever a district offers an interscholastic athletic activity, a child
residing within the district but not attending the school, will be
allowed an opportunity to participate in such activity; provided, that
the child is not a pupil at another school within such district. Section
3 sets forth the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION: The intention of this legislation is to amend the
current education law, which requires the student's enrollment in the
school district as a condition for participation in that school's inter-
scholastic sports program, in order for home schooled students to be
better integrated in society and societal activities through partic-
ipation in public school's interscholastic extracurricular activities.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2013-2014: A5711- Referred to Education
2011-2012: A10485- Referred to Education
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: Undetermined.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the one hundred twenti-
eth day after it shall have become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4062
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the participation of
home-schooled pupils in certain school activities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 806-a of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. Whenever such course of instruction is offered within a district, a
4 child residing within that district but not attending the school at
5 which such course is offered, shall be allowed to participate in such
6 course, provided such child otherwise meets the requirements of such
7 course and pays fees related to such course, if any.
8 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3202-a to
9 read as follows:
10 § 3202-a. Participation of home-schooled students in athletic activ-
11 ities. Whenever a district shall offer an interscholastic athletic
12 activity, a child residing within such district but not attending such
13 school, shall be allowed an opportunity to participate in such athletic
14 activity; provided, that such child is not a pupil at another school
15 within such district.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
17 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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