Bill Text: NY S08416 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-28 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S08416 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08416-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8416

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 28, 2022
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        Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, 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.
                                                                   LBD07216-01-1