Bill Text: NY A03343 | 2017-2018 | 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) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in education [A03343 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03343-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3343
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BARCLAY, BUTLER, FINCH, MONTESANO, OAKS, WALTER
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GOODELL -- 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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