STATE OF NEW YORK
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6923
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 24, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. HARRIS -- 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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