S6655 • 2025

Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school

Education

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Sponsor: Joseph A. Griffo
Last action: 2026-06-04
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school

Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school; defines "agricultural learning events" as including FFA events and 4-H programs.

What This Bill Does

Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school; defines "agricultural learning events" as including FFA events and 4-H programs.

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Bill History

2026-06-04 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-06-04 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-06-04 Assembly
REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2026-02-24 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-02-11 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-02-10 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.319
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2025-06-13 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-05-22 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-05-21 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-05-20 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1160
2025-03-19 Senate
REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school
Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school; defines "agricultural learning events" as including FFA events and 4-H programs.

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

                                          6655

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 19, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GRIFFO, STEC -- 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  allowing  students
          attending agricultural learning events to be recorded as in attendance
          at school

          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 3207-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 3207-B. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE FOR AGRICULTURAL LEARNING EVENTS.  1.    A
     4  SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY PERMIT AN ENROLLED STUDENT, WITH THE CONSENT OF SUCH
     5  STUDENT'S  PARENT,  GUARDIAN,  OR  OTHER PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATION, TO
     6  ATTEND AN AGRICULTURAL LEARNING EVENT. FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  ATTENDANCE,
     7  ANY  STUDENT  SO SERVING WHILE SCHOOL IS IN SESSION SHALL BE RECORDED AS
     8  IN ATTENDANCE.
     9    2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS  SECTION,  AN  "AGRICULTURAL  LEARNING  EVENT"
    10  SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT BE LIMITED TO, SCHEDULED EVENT OF STATE FUTURE
    11  FARMERS OF AMERICA (FFA) ASSOCIATIONS, THE NATIONAL  FUTURE  FARMERS  OF
    12  AMERICA (FFA) ORGANIZATION, AND 4-H PROGRAMS AS PART OF ORGANIZED COMPE-
    13  TITIONS OR EXHIBITIONS.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08323-01-5