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A10239 Summary:

BILL NOA10239 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08132

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SPONSORHevesi

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COSPNSREachus

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Add Art 65 Part 1 §3200, §3213-a, amd §§3202 & 3213, Ed L

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Implements requirements and guidelines to reduce chronic absenteeism including attendance reporting, attendance review teams, tiered strategies, early warning systems, and attendance policies.

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BILL NOA10239 

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02/12/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10239

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 12, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to implementing require-
 ments and guidelines to reduce chronic absenteeism

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Part 1 of article 65 of the education law is amended by
 2 adding a new section 3200 to read as follows:
 3 § 3200. Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following
 4 terms shall have the following meanings:
 5 1. "Absent" means when a pupil is not in attendance for at least fifty
 6 percent of a school day; provided that, "absent" does not apply to
 7 participation in interscholastic extracurricular activities.
 8 2. "Excused absence", "unexcused absence" and "disciplinary absence"
 9 shall be defined by the department which shall identify the rationale of
 10 each category for use by local and regional boards of education for the
 11 purposes of carrying out the provisions of this part, reporting chron-
 12 ically absent students, and calculating the district chronic absenteeism
 13 rate and the school chronic absenteeism rate. For such definitions of
 14 "excused absence" and "unexcused absence", the department shall exclude
 15 a student's engagement in: a. virtual classes; b. virtual meetings; c.
 16 activities on time-logged electronic systems; and d. the completion and
 17 submission of assignments, if such engagement accounts for not less than
 18 one-half of the school day during remote learning.
 19 3. "Remote learning" means instruction by means of one or more inter-
 20 net-based software platforms as part of a remote learning model.
 21 4. "Chronically absent" or "chronic absenteeism" means when a pupil,
 22 who is enrolled in a public school district, board of cooperative educa-
 23 tional services, charter school, county vocational education and exten-
 24 sion board, and nonpublic elementary, middle and secondary school, whose
 25 total number of absences at any time during a school year is equal to or
 26 greater than ten percent of the total number of days that such student
 27 has been enrolled at such school during such school year.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13142-01-5

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 1 5. "District chronic absenteeism rate" means the total number of
 2 chronically absent pupils attending a public school district, board of
 3 cooperative educational services, charter school, county vocational
 4 education and extension board, or nonpublic elementary, middle and/or
 5 secondary school system in a school year divided by the total number of
 6 pupils under the jurisdiction of such district, board, or system for
 7 such school year.
 8 6. "School chronic absenteeism rate" means the total number of chron-
 9 ically absent pupils attending a school in a school year divided by the
 10 total number of pupils enrolled in such school for such school year.
 11 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3213-a to
 12 read as follows:
 13 § 3213-a. Chronic absenteeism. 1. Attendance reporting. a. The depart-
 14 ment shall develop a real-time attendance reporting system and a set of
 15 codes concerning the types of absences and reasons for such absences
 16 that are to be categorized as an "excused absence" or an "unexcused
 17 absence". Every public school district, board of cooperative educa-
 18 tional services, charter school, county voc