Bill Text: NY S08413 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to directing the board of regents and the state education department to conduct a study and make recommendations on the readiness of children to start kindergarten and adjusting the age of mandatory attendance from minors who become five years of age after the first of December to minors who become five years of age after the first of September.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-19 - referred to education [S08413 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08413-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8413
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 7, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT directing the board of regents and the state education department
          to conduct a study and make recommendations on the readiness of  chil-
          dren  to start kindergarten and adjusting the age of mandatory attend-
          ance
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The board of regents, in consultation with the state educa-
     2  tion  department,  shall study the readiness of children in the state to
     3  start kindergarten and investigate the appropriateness of adjusting  the
     4  age  of required attendance to start kindergarten in New York state from
     5  minors who become five years of age after the first of December  in  any
     6  school  year  to  minors who become five years of age after the first of
     7  September in any school year.
     8    § 2. The board of regents shall, on or before April  1,  2019,  report
     9  the  findings,  conclusions  and  recommendations  of  such study to the
    10  governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15429-01-8