Assembly Bill A7879

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to waiving tuition requirements for nonresident pupils whose parent works as an educational professional within the same district

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A7879 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2045, Ed L

2025-A7879 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Waives tuition requirements for nonresident pupils if the nonresident pupil is enrolled in a school where the pupil's parent or guardian is a principal, a teacher or a paraprofessional or the nonresident pupil is enrolled at another school within the same district as a school where the pupil's parent or guardian is a principal, a teacher or a paraprofessional.

2025-A7879 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7879
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to waiving tuition
   requirements for nonresident pupils whose parent works  as  an  educa-
   tional professional within the same district

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2045 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5.  NO CHARGE FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF A NONRESIDENT PUPIL SHALL BE MADE
 IF THE NONRESIDENT PUPIL IS ENROLLED  IN  A  SCHOOL  WHERE  THE  PUPIL'S
 PARENT  OR  GUARDIAN  IS A PRINCIPAL, A TEACHER OR A PARAPROFESSIONAL OR
 THE NONRESIDENT PUPIL IS ENROLLED AT  ANOTHER  SCHOOL  WITHIN  THE  SAME
 DISTRICT  AS  A SCHOOL WHERE THE PUPIL'S PARENT OR GUARDIAN IS A PRINCI-
 PAL, A TEACHER OR A PARAPROFESSIONAL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to  school
 years commencing on and after July 1, 2025.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10633-01-5

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