Bill Text: NY A09149 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the Cohoes and Watervliet city school districts to require minors five years of age to attend kindergarten.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [A09149 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09149-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9149--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing  the  city
          school districts of Cohoes and Watervliet to require minors five years
          of age to attend kindergarten
          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 2 of section 3205 of the  educa-
     2  tion  law,  as amended by chapter 118 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    c. The board of education of the Syracuse city  school  district,  the
     5  board  of education of the city school district of the city of New York,
     6  the board of education of the  city  school  district  of  the  city  of
     7  Rochester,  the  board  of  education of the city school district of the
     8  city of Utica, the board of education of the city school district of the
     9  city of Buffalo the board of education of the city  school  district  of
    10  the  city  of Cohoes, the board of education of the city school district
    11  of the city of Watervliet, and the board of education of the city school
    12  district of the city of Yonkers are hereby authorized to require  minors
    13  who  are five years of age on or before December first to attend kinder-
    14  garten instruction. However, the provisions of this paragraph shall  not
    15  apply to:
    16    (i)  Minors whose parents elect not to enroll their children in school
    17  until the following September.
    18    (ii) Students enrolled in non-public schools or in home instruction.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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