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A5313 • 2025

Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and drivers ed in the district where they reside

Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and drivers ed in the district where they reside

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Sponsor
Alec Brook-Krasny
Last action
2026-05-18
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and drivers ed in the district where they reside

Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and drivers ed in the district where they reside Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and driver's education in the district where they reside.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and drivers ed in the district where they reside Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and driver's education in the district where they reside.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-18 Assembly

    HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN EDUCATION

  2. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    REFERRED TO EDUCATION

  3. 2025-02-13 Assembly

    REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and drivers ed in the district where they reside
Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and driver's education in the district where they reside.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5313

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    February 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY, NOVAKHOV -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the  participation  of
          home-schooled pupils in certain school activities

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Section 806-a of the education law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. WHENEVER SUCH COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IS OFFERED WITHIN A DISTRICT, A
     4  CHILD  RESIDING  WITHIN  THAT  DISTRICT  BUT NOT ATTENDING THE SCHOOL AT
     5  WHICH SUCH COURSE IS OFFERED, SHALL BE ALLOWED TO  PARTICIPATE  IN  SUCH
     6  COURSE,  PROVIDED  SUCH  CHILD  OTHERWISE MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUCH
     7  COURSE AND PAYS FEES RELATED TO SUCH COURSE, IF ANY.
     8    § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  3202-a  to
     9  read as follows:
    10    §  3202-A.  PARTICIPATION OF HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS IN ATHLETIC ACTIV-
    11  ITIES. WHENEVER A  DISTRICT  SHALL  OFFER  AN  INTERSCHOLASTIC  ATHLETIC
    12  ACTIVITY,  A  CHILD RESIDING WITHIN SUCH DISTRICT BUT NOT ATTENDING SUCH
    13  SCHOOL, SHALL BE ALLOWED AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN SUCH  ATHLETIC
    14  ACTIVITY;  PROVIDED,  THAT  SUCH  CHILD IS NOT A PUPIL AT ANOTHER SCHOOL
    15  WITHIN SUCH DISTRICT.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09206-01-5