Bill Text: NY S04369 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the Yonkers city school district to require certain minors who are five years of age to attend kindergarten.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-18 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6333 [S04369 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04369-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4369
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 17, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sens. STEWART-COUSINS, LATIMER -- read twice and ordered
         printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Educa-
         tion
       AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing the Yonk-
         ers city school district to require certain minors who are 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 separately amended by chapters 187 and 189 of the laws of
    3  2014, is amended to read as follows:
    4    c. The board of education of the Syracuse city school district  [and],
    5  the  board  of  education of the city school district of the city of New
    6  York, the board of education of the city school district of the city  of
    7  Rochester  [and],  the board of education of the city school district of
    8  the city of Utica [and], the board  of  education  of  the  city  school
    9  district  of  the city of Buffalo AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY
   10  SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF YONKERS are hereby authorized to  require
   11  minors  who  are five years of age on or before December first to attend
   12  kindergarten instruction. However,  the  provisions  of  this  paragraph
   13  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    S 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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