Bill Text: NY S03436 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 13-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-01-07 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S03436 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03436-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3436

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. ADDABBO, OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  allowing  school
          districts  to permit home-schooled students to participate in district
          interscholastic sports

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The education law is amended by adding a new section 3235
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 3235. Home instruction  students  and  interscholastic  sports.  The
     4  board  of  education  or  trustee of a school district may establish and
     5  adopt a policy to allow a student who receives home instruction  to  try
     6  out  for  and  participate  on  a school district's interschool athletic
     7  team. The policy shall include, but not  be  limited  to  the  following
     8  provisions:
     9    1. The student shall be required to meet all the same responsibilities
    10  and  standards  of behavior and eligibility for practice and competition
    11  as a public school student enrolled in the school district participating
    12  on the interschool athletic team including but not limited to the health
    13  examination, immunization, and age eligibility requirements;
    14    2. The student shall annually meet all academic requirements  pursuant
    15  to section 100.10 of commissioner regulations; provided, however, that a
    16  board  of  education  or  trustee of a school district may require addi-
    17  tional academic eligibility requirements;
    18    3. The student shall only be eligible to try out for  and  participate
    19  on their school district of residence's interschool athletic team; and
    20    4.  Transportation  shall be provided by the parent or guardian of the
    21  student.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01490-01-5