Bill Text: NY A00096 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires kindergarten instruction for minors who are five years of age on or before December first.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A00096 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00096-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           96
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, BUCHWALD, COOK, GALEF, GOTTFRIED, SIMON,
          RAIA, JAFFEE, PEOPLES-STOKES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  BUTLER
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to requiring minors who
          are five years old to attend kindergarten instruction
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 3205 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by chapter 118 of the laws of 2015, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    c.  [The  board of education of the Syracuse city school district, the
     5  board of education of the city school district of the city of New  York,
     6  the  board  of  education  of  the  city  school district of the city of
     7  Rochester, the board of education of the city  school  district  of  the
     8  city of Utica, the board of education of the city school district of the
     9  city  of  Buffalo and the board of education of the city school district
    10  of the city of Yonkers are hereby authorized to require minors  who  are
    11  five  years  of  age  on or before December first to attend kindergarten
    12  instruction. However,] In each school district of the state, minors  who
    13  are  five  years of age on or before December first shall attend kinder-
    14  garten instruction, however, the provisions of this paragraph shall  not
    15  apply to:
    16    (i)  Minors whose parents elect not to enroll their children in school
    17  until the following September.
    18    (ii) Students enrolled in non-public schools or in home instruction.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    20  the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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