Bill Text: NY A10296 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes Labor Day as the date for determining school age.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to education [A10296 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A10296-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10296 IN ASSEMBLY May 13, 2022 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing labor day as the date for determining school age The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 8 of section 3202 of the education law, 2 subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 490 of the laws of 2019 and subdivi- 3 sion 8 as amended by chapter 569 of the laws of 1994, are amended to 4 read as follows: 5 1. A person over five and under twenty-one years of age as of the 6 first Monday in September for a given school year who has not received a 7 high school diploma is entitled to attend the public schools maintained 8 in the district in which such person resides without the payment of 9 tuition. Provided further that such person may continue to attend the 10 public school in such district in the same manner, if temporarily resid- 11 ing outside the boundaries of the district when relocation to such 12 temporary residence is a consequence of such person's parent or person 13 in parental relationship being called to active military duty, other 14 than training. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contra- 15 ry, the school district shall not be required to provide transportation 16 between a temporary residence located outside of the school district and 17 the school the child attends. A veteran of any age who shall have served 18 as a member of the armed forces of the United States and who (a) shall 19 have been discharged therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable, 20 or (b) has a qualifying condition, as defined in section three hundred 21 fifty of the executive law, and has received a discharge other than bad 22 conduct or dishonorable from such service, or (c) is a discharged LGBT 23 veteran, as defined in section three hundred fifty of the executive law, 24 and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from 25 such service, may attend any of the public schools of the state upon 26 conditions prescribed by the board of education, and such veterans shall 27 be included in the pupil count for state aid purposes. A nonveteran 28 under twenty-one years of age who has received a high school diploma EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15029-01-2A. 10296 2 1 shall be permitted to attend classes in the schools of the district in 2 which such person resides or in a school of a board of cooperative 3 educational services upon payment of tuition under such terms and condi- 4 tions as shall be established in regulations promulgated by the commis- 5 sioner; provided, however, that a school district may waive the payment 6 of tuition for such nonveteran, but in any case such a nonveteran who 7 has received a high school diploma shall not be counted for any state 8 aid purposes. Nothing herein contained shall, however, require a board 9 of education to admit a child who becomes five years of age after the 10 school year has commenced unless his birthday occurs on or before the 11 first [of December] Monday in September. 12 8. Homeless children. A homeless child, as defined in subdivision one 13 of section thirty-two hundred nine of this article, over the age of five 14 and under twenty-one years of age as of the first Monday in September 15 for a given school year, who has not received a high school diploma, 16 shall be entitled to attend a public school without the payment of 17 tuition, in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-two hundred 18 nine of this article. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 20 the date upon which it shall have become a law.
