Senate Bill S6258

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to eligibility for senior high school athletic competitions

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

  • 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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2019-S6258 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3208-b, Ed L

2019-S6258 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to eligibility for senior high school athletic competitions; creates an exception for students with a developmental or physical disability.

2019-S6258 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6258 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6258
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 30, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- 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 eligibility for senior
   high school athletic competition
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3208-b
 to read as follows:
   §  3208-B.  ELIGIBILITY  FOR  SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC COMPETITION;
 DISABILITY EXCEPTION.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE REGULATIONS  TO
 ALLOW  A  WAIVER  OF  THE FOUR-YEAR LIMITATION ON ELIGIBILITY FOR SENIOR
 HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC COMPETITION WHEN A STUDENT WITH A DEVELOPMENTAL  OR
 PHYSICAL  DISABILITY, WHO IS OTHERWISE QUALIFIED TO COMPETE AND HAS BEEN
 SELECTED FOR SUCH COMPETITION IN THE PAST, HAS NOT  YET  GRADUATED  HIGH
 SCHOOL. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DEFINE DEVELOPMENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABIL-
 ITY  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  WAIVER  IN ACCORDANCE WITH PART 200 OF THE
 COMMISSIONER'S REGULATIONS.  SUCH  WAIVER  SHALL  BE  REQUESTED  BY  THE
 ATHLETIC  DIRECTOR  OF  SUCH  STUDENT'S SCHOOL AND THE SUPERINTENDENT OF
 SUCH SCHOOL'S DISTRICT AND MAY BE  GRANTED  BY  SUCH  SCHOOL  DISTRICT'S
 SECTION  OF  THE NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
 SUCH WAIVER SHALL ONLY ALLOW PARTICIPATION IN A NON-CONTACT OR  NON-COL-
 LISION  SPORT, PROVIDED THAT ANOTHER QUALIFIED STUDENT, WHO IS OTHERWISE
 ELIGIBLE FOR COMPETITION, IS NOT DENIED THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13071-01-9

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