Bill Text: NY A07559 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7559 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Directs a study on the feasibility of adjusting the compulsory attendance age of minors attending full time instruction; on or before July 1, 2021.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-12-06 - VETOED MEMO.186 [A07559 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07559-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7559--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to directing a study on
          the feasibility of adjusting the compulsory attendance age  of  minors
          attending full time instruction

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

     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 60 to read as follows:
     3    60. On or before July first, two thousand twenty-one, the commissioner
     4  shall conduct a study on the feasibility  of  adjusting  the  compulsory
     5  attendance  age  for  when minors shall attend full time instruction and
     6  deliver a report of the findings and recommendations based on such find-
     7  ings to the governor, the temporary president of  the  senate,  and  the
     8  speaker  of the assembly. The commissioner shall consult with educators,
     9  parents, and other stakeholders to conduct a study which shall  include,
    10  but not be limited to:
    11    (a)  the  social,  emotional,  and  educational appropriateness of the
    12  state's compulsory attendance age for when minors shall attend full time
    13  instruction;
    14    (b) the appropriateness  and  feasibility  of  adjusting  the  age  of
    15  required  attendance  to  start  school  in New York state to minors who
    16  become five years of age after the first  of  September  in  any  school
    17  year; and
    18    (c)  the  educational  programs  and  services available to minors who
    19  would otherwise be enrolled in prekindergarten pursuant to an adjustment
    20  in the state's compulsory attendance age.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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