Bill Text: NY A05006 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires kindergarten instruction for Rockland and Westchester counties for minors who are five years of age on or before December first.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A05006 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05006-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5006

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 10, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN,  ABINANTI, COOK, PRETLOW, ZEBROWSKI,
          STECK, HEVESI, J. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  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.
                                                                   LBD01986-01-1
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