republic-os/legislation/us/states/ny/2017-2018/a-1377.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	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.	us/states/ny	New York Legislature	2017-2018	A 1377	New York A 1377 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	MCDONALD	2	13	2	2017-01-11	2017-09-12	openstates	ocd-bill/68ca76cc-ecf7-49e8-bfb4-e312d819ae9e	http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/A1377	8ac0726c72fa900c8eca739b77dfbbce2042f505d7c2f1a614d54255bf81337b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. A1377 PDF (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/68ca76cc-ecf7-49e8-bfb4-e312d819ae9e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).