Bill Text: NY A05870 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Changes the mandatory date for kindergarten enrollment from December first to August thirty-first.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in education [A05870 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05870-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5870
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 20, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A.  DeSTEFANO, GOODELL, MANKTELOW, SALKA  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to changing the mandatory
          date for kindergarten enrollment
          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 1 of section 3205 of the  educa-
     2  tion  law,  as amended by chapter 518 of the laws of 1993, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    c. For purposes of this article, a minor who becomes six years of  age
     5  on  or  before  the  [first  of  December] thirty-first of August in any
     6  school year shall be required to attend upon full time instruction  from
     7  the  first  day  that  the  appropriate public schools are in session in
     8  September of such school year, and a minor who becomes six years of  age
     9  after  the [first of December] thirty-first of August in any school year
    10  shall be required to attend upon full time instruction  from  the  first
    11  day  of  session  in  the  following September; and, except as otherwise
    12  provided in subdivision three of this  section,  shall  be  required  to
    13  remain in attendance until the last day of session in the school year in
    14  which the minor becomes sixteen years of age.
    15    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    16  the date on which it shall have become a law  and  shall  apply  to  all
    17  minors entering kindergarten after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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