Bill Text: NY S05453 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs a study on the feasibility of adjusting the compulsory attendance age of minors attending full time instruction; requires report and recommendations on or before July 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S05453 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05453-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5453--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT directing a study on the feasibility of adjusting the compulsory
          attendance age of minors attending full time instruction; and  provid-
          ing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of education shall conduct a study on  the
     2  feasibility  of  adjusting the compulsory attendance age for when minors
     3  shall attend full time instruction and deliver a report of the  findings
     4  and  recommendations  based on such findings to the governor, the tempo-
     5  rary president of the senate, and the speaker  of  the  assembly  on  or
     6  before July first, two thousand twenty-five.  The commissioner of educa-
     7  tion  shall  consult  with educators, parents, and other stakeholders to
     8  conduct a study which shall include, but not be limited to:
     9    (a) the social, emotional,  and  educational  appropriateness  of  the
    10  state's compulsory attendance age for when minors shall attend full time
    11  instruction;
    12    (b)  the  appropriateness  and  feasibility  of  adjusting  the age of
    13  required attendance to start school in New  York  state  to  minors  who
    14  become  five  years  of  age  after the first of September in any school
    15  year; and
    16    (c) the educational programs and  services  available  to  minors  who
    17  would otherwise be enrolled in prekindergarten pursuant to an adjustment
    18  in the state's compulsory attendance age.
    19    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    20  deemed repealed December 31, 2025.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04388-03-3