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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