A 389: Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 389 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE, BENEDETTO, COOK, PEOPLES-STOKES, ROSEN- THAL, WOERNER, CRUZ, TAYLOR, HUNTER, FALL, LUPARDO, SANTABARBARA, BRABENEC, MIKULIN, MILLER, MORINELLO, RA, WALSH, GIGLIO, MANKTELOW, BARCLAY, FITZPATRICK, SMULLEN, DeSTEFANO, McDONOUGH, McMAHON, GALLAGH- ER, BUTTENSCHON, DURSO, LEVENBERG, CLARK, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HAWLEY, RAMOS, STECK, TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3235 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3235. Home instruction students and interscholastic sports. The 4 board of education or trustee of a school district may establish and 5 adopt a policy to allow a student who receives home instruction to try 6 out for and participate on a school district's interschool athletic 7 team. The policy shall include, but not be limited to the following 8 provisions: 9 1. The student shall be required to meet all the same responsibilities 10 and standards of behavior and eligibility for practice and competition 11 as a public school student enrolled in the school district participating 12 on the interschool athletic team including but not limited to the health 13 examination, immunization, and age eligibility requirements; 14 2. The student shall annually meet all academic requirements pursuant 15 to section 100.10 of commissioner regulations; provided, however, that a 16 board of education or trustee of a school district may require addi- 17 tional academic eligibility requirements; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01490-01-5 
 A. 389 2 1 3. The student shall only be eligible to try out for and participate 2 on their school district of residence's interschool athletic team; and 3 4. Transportation shall be provided by the parent or guardian of the 4 student. 5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.