---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes the Cohoes and Watervliet city school districts to require minors five years of age to attend kindergarten"
description: "Authorizes the Cohoes and Watervliet city school districts to require minors five years of age to attend kindergarten."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "A 1377"
citation: "New York A 1377 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["MCDONALD"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-09-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68ca76cc-ecf7-49e8-bfb4-e312d819ae9e"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/A1377"
source_hash: "8ac0726c72fa900c8eca739b77dfbbce2042f505d7c2f1a614d54255bf81337b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York A 1377 (2017-2018) — Authorizes the Cohoes and Watervliet city school districts to require minors five years of age to attend kindergarten

Authorizes the Cohoes and Watervliet city school districts to require minors five years of age to attend kindergarten.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **A1377 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A1377&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **A1377 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/A1377)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **125–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- MCDONALD — primary (person)
- MORINELLO — cosponsor (person)
- WILLIAMS — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-11** REFERRED TO EDUCATION `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-02** REPORTED
- **2017-05-04** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.263
- **2017-05-09** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-05-09** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2017-05-09** REFERRED TO EDUCATION `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-19** SUBSTITUTED FOR S2274
- **2017-06-19** 3RD READING CAL.1943
- **2017-06-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-06-19** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-08-31** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-09-12** SIGNED CHAP.277 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68ca76cc-ecf7-49e8-bfb4-e312d819ae9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).