S1715-2013 Actions

• Jan 9, 2013: REFERRED TO EDUCATION

S1715-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S1715

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting school districts
from disallowing home-schooled
students from participating in district
interscholastic
sports

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To allow home-schooled students to participate in interscholastic
athletics.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the education law by adding a new section 1501-d,
which prohibits school districts from disallowing home-schooled
students from participating in the district's interscholastic sports,
and requires districts to make provision for such participation.

Section 2 provides that the act shall take effect immediately.

JUSTIFICATION:
Currently, home-schooled students may be prohibited from participating
in interscholastic sports even though they are entitled to attend the
schools that have the sport. It is fundamentally unfair to prohibit
home-schooled students from participating in an important aspect of
childhood development merely because their parents or guardians
choose to home school them. The students have every right to attend
the school, and there is no reduction is school taxes for parents or
guardians who home-school their children, so there is no legitimate
reason to prohibit home-schooled students from participating in
interscholastic sports within the district. In fact, not all
districts have such a prohibition, but this bill is necessary because
some districts do have such a prohibition.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None to the state.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately.

S1715-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         1715
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 (PREFILED)
 January 9, 2013
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  ESPAILLAT, KENNEDY, LIBOUS, MAZIARZ -- 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  prohibiting  school
 districts  from  disallowing home-schooled students from participating
 in district interscholastic sports
 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 1501-d
 to read as follows:

 

S  1501-D.  HOMESCHOOLED  STUDENTS; INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS.   NOTWITH
 STANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, BOARDS OF EDUCATION
 OF  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS  ARE  PROHIBITED  FROM  DISALLOWING   HOMESCHOOLED
 STUDENTS  FROM  PARTICIPATING  IN THE DISTRICT'S INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS,
 AND SHALL MAKE PROVISION FOR SUCH PARTICIPATION.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02993-01-3

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