Bill Text: NY A04062 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4062 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and driver's education in the district where they reside.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 11-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-07-08 - enacting clause stricken [A04062 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04062-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4062
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 29, 2015
                                      ___________
       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    S 2. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  3202-a  to
    9  read as follows:
   10    S  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    S 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.
                                                                  LBD08241-01-5