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Assembly Bill A6478

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Separates interscholastic athletic championships between public and non-public schools

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2025-A6478 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10121

2025-A6478 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Separates interscholastic athletic championships between public and non-public schools.

2025-A6478 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6478
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to separating interscho-
   lastic athletic championships between public and non-public schools
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 63 to read as follows:
   63. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ATHLETIC LEAGUE,
 THE  NEW  YORK  STATE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, AND OTHER
 HIGH SCHOOL INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONS  HOLD  SEPARATE  STATE
 INTERSCHOLASTIC   ATHLETIC   CHAMPIONSHIPS  FOR  PUBLIC  AND  NON-PUBLIC
 SCHOOLS.  SUCH REQUIREMENT SHALL PROHIBIT PUBLIC AND NON-PUBLIC  SCHOOLS
 FROM  HOLDING  INTERSCHOLASTIC  ATHLETIC COMPETITIONS PRIOR TO ANY STATE
 INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR A PARTICULAR SPORT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06460-01-5

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