Bill Text: NY S06720 | 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: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-19 - PRINT NUMBER 6720A [S06720 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06720-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6720--A
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 9, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  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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