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                                  2957--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER, LUPARDO, THIELE, TAPIA -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Education -- committee  discharged,  bill
   amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
   tee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to home instruction

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (iv) and (v) of subdivision 2 of section 3204 of
 the education law are renumbered paragraphs (v) and (vi) and a new para-
 graph (iv) is added to read as follows:
   (IV)  (A) FOR PURPOSES OF CONSIDERING SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE PURSUANT
 TO THIS SUBDIVISION FOR INSTRUCTION PROVIDED  AT  HOME  TO  STUDENTS  OF
 COMPULSORY  SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AGE, THE LOCAL SCHOOL AUTHORITY SHALL DEEM
 HOME INSTRUCTION TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIVALENT IN AMOUNT AND QUALITY TO
 THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO STUDENTS OF LIKE AGE  AND  ATTAINMENTS  AT  THE
 PUBLIC  SCHOOLS  OF  THE CITY OR DISTRICT WHERE THE STUDENT RESIDES WHEN
 THE PARENT OR PERSON  IN  A  PARENTAL  RELATION  WITH  THE  STUDENT  HAS
 COMPLIED  WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS ARTICLE AND THE HOME INSTRUCTION
 REQUIREMENTS PRESCRIBED IN THE COMMISSIONER'S REGULATIONS THROUGH  GRADE
 TWELVE.
   (B)  ONCE  A  PARENT  OR PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATION HAS FULFILLED THE
 OBLIGATIONS OF HOME INSTRUCTION AS SET FORTH IN SUBPARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS
 PARAGRAPH TO COMPLETE HIGH SCHOOL, SUCH PERSON SHALL  REQUEST  FROM  THE
 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF THE STUDENT'S SCHOOL DISTRICT OF RESIDENCE,
 AND SUCH SUPERINTENDENT SHALL PROVIDE, WITHIN THIRTY DAYS, TO THE PARENT
 OR  PERSON  IN PARENTAL RELATION, OR STUDENT, WHERE THE STUDENT IS EIGH-
 TEEN YEARS OR OLDER, A LETTER, IN A FORM AND MANNER  PRESCRIBED  BY  THE
 COMMISSIONER,  CERTIFYING  THE  STUDENT'S  SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF HOME
 INSTRUCTION THAT WAS SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIVALENT TO THE PUBLIC  SCHOOLS  OF
 SUCH  CITY  OR DISTRICT, AND PROVIDED FURTHER THAT, UPON REQUEST FROM AN
 INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION OR LICENSED PRIVATE CAREER  SCHOOL,  THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06373-02-3
              

 A. 2957--A                          2
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS SHALL PROVIDE, WITHIN THIRTY DAYS, AN OFFICIAL
 COPY  OF  SUCH  LETTER  OF SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE TO THE INSTITUTION OF
 HIGHER EDUCATION OR LICENSED PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOL.
   (C)  (1)  AS USED IN THIS PARAGRAPH, "INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION"
 SHALL MEAN ANY INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION RECOGNIZED  AND  APPROVED
 BY THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WHICH PROVIDES
 A  COURSE OF STUDY LEADING TO THE GRANTING OF A POST-SECONDARY DEGREE OR
 DIPLOMA.
   (2) AS USED IN THIS PARAGRAPH, "LICENSED PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOL"  SHALL
 HAVE  THE  SAME  MEANING AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH A OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF
 SECTION FIVE THOUSAND ONE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.