 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           199
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. MARTINEZ, BORRELLO, CLEARE, GALLIVAN, MURRAY, OBER-
          ACKER, O'MARA, PALUMBO, ROLISON, TEDISCO, WALCZYK, WEIK -- 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 home instruction

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (iv) and (v) of subdivision 2 of section 3204 of
     2  the education law are renumbered paragraphs (v) and (vi) and a new para-
     3  graph (iv) is added to read as follows:
     4    (iv) (A) For purposes of considering substantial equivalence  pursuant
     5  to  this  subdivision  for  instruction  provided at home to students of
     6  compulsory school attendance age, the local school authority shall  deem
     7  home instruction to be substantially equivalent in amount and quality to
     8  the  instruction  given  to  students of like age and attainments at the
     9  public schools of the city or district where the  student  resides  when
    10  the  parent  or  person  in  a  parental  relation  with the student has
    11  complied with the requirements of this article and the home  instruction
    12  requirements  prescribed in the commissioner's regulations through grade
    13  twelve.
    14    (B) Once a parent or person in parental  relation  has  fulfilled  the
    15  obligations of home instruction as set forth in subparagraph (A) of this
    16  paragraph  to  complete  high school, such person shall request from the
    17  superintendent of schools of the student's school district of residence,
    18  and such superintendent shall provide, within thirty days, to the parent
    19  or person in parental relation, or student, where the student  is  eigh-
    20  teen  years  or  older, a letter, in a form and manner prescribed by the
    21  commissioner, certifying the student's  successful  completion  of  home
    22  instruction  that  was substantially equivalent to the public schools of
    23  such city or district, and provided further that, upon request  from  an
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00878-01-5
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     1  institution  of  higher education or licensed private career school, the
     2  superintendent of schools shall provide, within thirty days, an official
     3  copy of such letter of substantial equivalence  to  the  institution  of
     4  higher education or licensed private career school.
     5    (C)  (1)  As used in this paragraph, "institution of higher education"
     6  shall mean any institution of higher education recognized  and  approved
     7  by the regents of the university of the state of New York which provides
     8  a  course of study leading to the granting of a post-secondary degree or
     9  diploma.
    10    (2) As used in this paragraph, "licensed private career school"  shall
    11  have  the  same  meaning as defined in paragraph a of subdivision one of
    12  section five thousand one of this chapter.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Provides for home instruction

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