A 591: Requires kindergarten instruction for Rockland and Westchester counties for minors who are five years of age on or before December first.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 591 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, COOK, STECK, HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring minors who are five years old to attend kindergarten instruction The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3205 of the education law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph d to read as follows: 3 d. In each school district in the counties of Rockland and Westches- 4 ter, minors who are five years of age on or before December first shall 5 attend kindergarten instruction, however, the provisions of this para- 6 graph shall not apply to: 7 (i) Minors whose parents elect not to enroll their children in school 8 until the following September. 9 (ii) Students enrolled in non-public schools or in home instruction. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 11 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02043-01-5