Prohibits local trustees or boards of education from deeming students nonresidents when they must move to neighboring districts temporarily while parents are deployed to active military service.
STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
5573
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 23, 2011
___________
Introduced by M. of A. TOWNS, STEVENSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. PHEFFER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school district resi-
dency requirements for students whose parents are activated to mili-
tary service
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3202 of the education law is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 2. Nonresidents of a district, if otherwise competent, may be admitted
4 into the school or schools of a district or city, upon the consent of
5 the trustees or the board of education, upon terms prescribed by such
6 trustees or board. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
7 contrary, nonresident status shall not apply to a student who subse-
8 quently becomes a nonresident because he or she must reside outside of
9 his or her school district temporarily while one or both parents are in
10 active military service.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09647-01-1