STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, JAFFEE, PRETLOW, ZEBROWSKI, STECK, HEVE-
          SI, RIVERA, COOK, ABINANTI, GALEF, OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. BUCHWALD, GOTTFRIED -- 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.  Subdivision  2  of  section  3205 of the education law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph d to read as follows:
     3    d. In each school district in the counties of Rockland  and  Westches-
     4  ter,  minors who are five years of age on or before December first shall
     5  attend kindergarten instruction, however, the provisions of  this  para-
     6  graph shall not apply to:
     7    (i)  Minors whose parents elect not to enroll their children in school
     8  until the following September.
     9    (ii) Students enrolled in non-public schools or in home instruction.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    11  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.
                                                                   LBD03694-01-9