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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10216--A
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 15, 2012
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred 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
          Rochester city school district to require minors age  five  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  added  by chapter 546 of the laws of 1987, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    c. The board of education of the Syracuse city school district and the
     5  board of education of the city school district of the city of  Rochester
     6  [is]  are  hereby authorized to require minors who are five years of age
     7  on or before December first to attend kindergarten instruction. However,
     8  the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to:
     9    (i) Minors whose parents elect not to enroll their children in  school
    10  until the following September.
    11    (ii) Students enrolled in non-public schools or in home instruction.

    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15842-02-2