Assembly Bill A6923

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and drivers ed in the district where they reside

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A6923 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6969
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §806-a, add §3202-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S736
2021-2022: S5884
2023-2024: S2170

2017-A6923 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-A6923 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6923
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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:

   Section  1.  Section 806-a of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3. WHENEVER SUCH COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IS OFFERED WITHIN A DISTRICT, A
 CHILD RESIDING WITHIN THAT DISTRICT BUT  NOT  ATTENDING  THE  SCHOOL  AT
 WHICH  SUCH  COURSE  IS OFFERED, SHALL BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN SUCH
 COURSE, PROVIDED SUCH CHILD OTHERWISE MEETS  THE  REQUIREMENTS  OF  SUCH
 COURSE AND PAYS FEES RELATED TO SUCH COURSE, IF ANY.
   §  2.  The  education law is amended by adding a new section 3202-a to
 read as follows:
   § 3202-A. PARTICIPATION OF HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS IN  ATHLETIC  ACTIV-
 ITIES.  WHENEVER  A  DISTRICT  SHALL  OFFER  AN INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC
 ACTIVITY, A CHILD RESIDING WITHIN SUCH DISTRICT BUT NOT  ATTENDING  SUCH
 SCHOOL,  SHALL BE ALLOWED AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN SUCH ATHLETIC
 ACTIVITY; PROVIDED, THAT SUCH CHILD IS NOT A  PUPIL  AT  ANOTHER  SCHOOL
 WITHIN SUCH DISTRICT.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09126-01-7

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