Bill Text: NY A00350 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 350 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A00350 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00350-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           350
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, BUCHWALD, COOK, GALEF, GOTTFRIED, SIMON,
          RAIA, JAFFEE, PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
          tee 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 277 of the laws of 2017, 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  the board of education of the city school district of
    10  the city of Cohoes, the board of education of the city  school  district
    11  of the city of Watervliet, and the board of education of the city school
    12  district  of the city of Yonkers are hereby authorized to require minors
    13  who are five years of age on or before December first to attend  kinder-
    14  garten  instruction.  However,]  In  each  school district of the state,
    15  minors who are five years of age  on  or  before  December  first  shall
    16  attend  kindergarten  instruction, however, the provisions of this para-
    17  graph shall not apply to:
    18    (i) Minors whose parents elect not to enroll their children in  school
    19  until the following September.
    20    (ii) Students enrolled in non-public schools or in home instruction.
    21    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    22  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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