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A 3515: Requires school districts to provide information regarding water safety to parents or students upon enrollment.
What A 3515 does, verified July 2, 2025
The bill requires school districts to provide parents or guardians with information on drowning prevention, water safety, and safe and healthy swimming practices to their students at the beginning of the school year and upon enrollment. This information can be provided electronically or in paper form, and it must be translated into the 12 most common non-English languages spoken by limited-English proficient individuals in the state upon request. The New York State Commissioner of Health will produce and update the information as needed and provide it to each school district, which will then publish it on their website in a clearly visible and accessible location. The bill takes effect on July 1, 2026.
Bill journey
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2In CommitteePending
3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: substituted by s1349c (2025-06-16)Alert me
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| Jun. 16, 2025 | substituted by s1349c |
| Jun. 16, 2025 | ordered to third reading rules cal.778 |
| Jun. 16, 2025 | rules report cal.778 |
| Jun. 16, 2025 | reported |
| Jun. 13, 2025 | reported referred to rules |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 28, 2025 · 313 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3515 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring school districts to provide information regarding water safety and swimming certification to certain parents or students upon enrollment The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3205 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. a. Beginning with the two thousand twenty-six--two thousand twen- 4 ty-seven school year, each school district shall provide, to a parent or 5 guardian who initially enrolls their child in the school, information on 6 the important role water safety education courses and swimming lessons 7 play in saving lives. The information must be provided electronically or 8 in hard copy and must include local options for age-appropriate water 9 safety courses and swimming lessons that result in a certificate indi- 10 cating successful completion, including courses and lessons offered for 11 free or at a reduced price. If the student is eighteen years of age or 12 older, or is under the age of twenty-one and is enrolling in adult 13 education classes, the information must be provided to the student. 14 b. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "water safety" shall 15 mean age-appropriate education intended to promote safety in, on, and 16 around bodies of water and reduce the risk of injury, including fatal or 17 non-fatal drowning. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04032-01-5
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