Assembly Bill A5870

2019-2020 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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2019-A5870 (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
2013-2014: A4123
2015-2016: A3223
2017-2018: A3343

2019-A5870 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-A5870 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5870
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2019
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   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.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD02427-01-9

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