NY State Senate Bill 2025-S3436

Senate Bill S3436

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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Jan 27, 2025	referred to education

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2025-S3436 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A389
Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3235, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: A6814
2015-2016: S2175, A3678
2017-2018: S465, A445
2019-2020: S5472, A706
2021-2022: S8416, A4775
2023-2024: S1010, A1072

2025-S3436 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S3436 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S3436

SPONSOR: ADDABBO
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to allowing school
districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district
interscholastic sports

 
PURPOSE:

To allow home-schooled students to participate in interscholastic
athletics.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the education law by adding a new section 1501-d, which
allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate
in district interscholastic sports.

Section 2 provides that the act shall take effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Currently, home-schooled students are prohibited from participating in
interscholastic sports even though they are entitled to attend the
schools that have the sport. It is fundamentally unfair to prohibit
home-schooled students from participating in an important aspect of
childhood development merely because their parents or guardians choose
to home school them. The students have every right to attend the school,
and there is no reduction in school taxes for parents or guardians who
home-school their children

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2015-16: 5.2175 / A.3678A - Passed Senate; Referred to Assembly Educa-
tion Committee.

2017-18: S.465A / A.445A - Passed Senate; Referred to Assembly Education
Committee.

2019-20: 5.5472-A / A.706A - Referred to Senate Education Committee;
Referred to Assembly Education Committee.

2021-22: 5.8416 / A.4775 - Referred to Senate Education Committee;
Referred to Assembly Education Committee.

2023-24: 5.1010 / A.1072 - Referred to Senate Education Committee;
Referred to Assembly Education Committee.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S3436 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3436
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. ADDABBO, OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed 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:
 
   Section  1.  The education law is amended by adding a new section 3235
 to read as follows:
   § 3235. HOME INSTRUCTION  STUDENTS  AND  INTERSCHOLASTIC  SPORTS.  THE
 BOARD  OF  EDUCATION  OR  TRUSTEE OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY ESTABLISH AND
 ADOPT A POLICY TO ALLOW A STUDENT WHO RECEIVES HOME INSTRUCTION  TO  TRY
 OUT  FOR  AND  PARTICIPATE  ON  A SCHOOL DISTRICT'S INTERSCHOOL ATHLETIC
 TEAM. THE POLICY SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO  THE  FOLLOWING
 PROVISIONS:
   1. THE STUDENT SHALL BE REQUIRED TO MEET ALL THE SAME RESPONSIBILITIES
 AND  STANDARDS  OF BEHAVIOR AND ELIGIBILITY FOR PRACTICE AND COMPETITION
 AS A PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENT ENROLLED IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT PARTICIPATING
 ON THE INTERSCHOOL ATHLETIC TEAM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE HEALTH
 EXAMINATION, IMMUNIZATION, AND AGE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS;
   2. THE STUDENT SHALL ANNUALLY MEET ALL ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS  PURSUANT
 TO SECTION 100.10 OF COMMISSIONER REGULATIONS; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT A
 BOARD  OF  EDUCATION  OR  TRUSTEE OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY REQUIRE ADDI-
 TIONAL ACADEMIC ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS;
   3. THE STUDENT SHALL ONLY BE ELIGIBLE TO TRY OUT FOR  AND  PARTICIPATE
 ON THEIR SCHOOL DISTRICT OF RESIDENCE'S INTERSCHOOL ATHLETIC TEAM; AND
   4.  TRANSPORTATION  SHALL BE PROVIDED BY THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF THE
 STUDENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01490-01-5

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Sponsored By

Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.