STATE OF NEW YORK
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5870
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. DeSTEFANO, GOODELL, MANKTELOW, SALKA -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to changing the mandatory
date for kindergarten enrollment
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 1 of section 3205 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 518 of the laws of 1993, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 c. For purposes of this article, a minor who becomes six years of age
5 on or before the [first of December] thirty-first of August in any
6 school year shall be required to attend upon full time instruction from
7 the first day that the appropriate public schools are in session in
8 September of such school year, and a minor who becomes six years of age
9 after the [first of December] thirty-first of August in any school year
10 shall be required to attend upon full time instruction from the first
11 day of session in the following September; and, except as otherwise
12 provided in subdivision three of this section, shall be required to
13 remain in attendance until the last day of session in the school year in
14 which the minor becomes sixteen years of age.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
16 the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to all
17 minors entering kindergarten after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02427-01-9
