Bill Text: NY A03819 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A03819 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3819

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        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-four, the commission-
     4  er  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.
                                                                   LBD04388-01-3