Bill Text: NY A05353 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Modifies the date for kindergarten enrollment from when a minor who becomes five or six years of age on or before the first of December to the first of September.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A05353 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A05353-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5353 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 7, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to kindergarten enroll- ment The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs c of subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3205 of the 2 education law, paragraph c of subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 518 of 3 the laws of 1993, and paragraph c of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 4 703 of the laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows: 5 c. For purposes of this article, a minor who becomes six years of age 6 on or before the first of [December] September in any school year shall 7 be required to attend upon full time instruction from the first day that 8 the appropriate public schools are in session in September of such 9 school year, and a minor who becomes six years of age after the first of 10 [December] September in any school year shall be required to attend upon 11 full time instruction from the first day of session in the following 12 September; and, except as otherwise provided in subdivision three of 13 this section, shall be required to remain in attendance until the last 14 day of session in the school year in which the minor becomes sixteen 15 years of age. 16 c. The board of education of every school district within the state is 17 hereby authorized to require minors who are five years of age on or 18 before [December] September first to attend kindergarten instruction. 19 However, the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to: 20 (i) Minors whose parents elect not to enroll their children in school 21 until the following September. 22 (ii) Students enrolled in non-public schools or in home instruction. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09751-01-3