Assembly Bill A4123

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Changes the mandatory date for kindergarten enrollment

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A4123 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3205, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3004
2011-2012: A4223
2015-2016: A3223
2017-2018: A3343
2019-2020: A5870

2013-A4123 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the mandatory date for kindergarten enrollment from December first to August thirty-first.

2013-A4123 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4123

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 1, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH, TENNEY -- Multi-Sponsored by --
  M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Educa-
  tion

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:

  Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 1 of section 3205 of the  educa-
tion  law,  as amended by chapter 518 of the laws of 1993, is amended to
read as follows:
  c. For purposes of this article, a minor who becomes six years of  age
on  or  before  the  [first  of  December] THIRTY-FIRST OF AUGUST in any
school year shall be required to attend upon full time instruction  from
the  first  day  that  the  appropriate public schools are in session in
September of such school year, and a minor who becomes six years of  age
after  the [first of December] THIRTY-FIRST OF AUGUST in any school year
shall be required to attend upon full time instruction  from  the  first
day  of  session  in  the  following September; and, except as otherwise
provided in subdivision three of this  section,  shall  be  required  to
remain in attendance until the last day of session in the school year in
which the minor becomes sixteen years of age.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law  and  shall  apply  to  all
minors entering kindergarten after such date.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04465-01-3

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