Bill Text: NY A02713 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the board of education of the Buffalo school district to require pre-kindergarten for minors four years of age.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-03 - enacting clause stricken [A02713 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A02713-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2713 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing the board of education of the Buffalo school district to require pre-kindergar- ten for minors four years of age 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. The board of education of the Buffalo school district is hereby 4 authorized to require minors who are four years of age on or before 5 December first to attend pre-kindergarten instruction. However the 6 provisions of this paragraph 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 home instruction. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect the first of July next succeeding the 11 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. LBD03608-01-7