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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9149
                   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
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing the Cohoes
          city  school  district  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 Cohoes city school
    10  district and the board of education of the city school district  of  the
    11  city  of  Yonkers  are  hereby authorized to require minors who are five
    12  years of age on or before December first to attend kindergarten instruc-
    13  tion. However, the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to:
    14    (i) Minors whose parents elect not to enroll their children in  school
    15  until the following September.
    16    (ii) Students enrolled in non-public schools or in home instruction.
    17    § 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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