Bill Text: NY A07898 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to transportation services for the school districts of the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A07898 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07898-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7898

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to  amend  the  education  law,  in  relation  to  transportation
          services for certain school districts

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  3635  of  the  education  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as follows:
     3    h.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law to the contrary, the
     4  city school districts of the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse  and
     5  Yonkers,  pursuant to adoption of a resolution by the board of education
     6  setting forth a plan, and approval of such plan by the commissioner, may
     7  provide  transportation  services  for  children  residing  within   the
     8  district  attending  kindergarten through grade twelve who live one half
     9  mile or more from the school they legally attend if such  transportation
    10  is  deemed necessary pursuant to a determination by the commissioner due
    11  to safety concerns. Such transportation services shall be restricted  to
    12  transportation  to  and  from children's homes or before or after-school
    13  child care locations and, if offered, shall be provided for each student
    14  up to a distance of fifteen miles. Transportation pursuant to this para-
    15  graph shall be offered equally to all  children  in  like  circumstances
    16  residing  in  the district. For the purpose of computing approved trans-
    17  portation expenses for transportation aid, expenses  for  transportation
    18  provided  pursuant  to  this  paragraph  shall be included.   The school
    19  district shall provide a report to the  governor,  the  speaker  of  the
    20  assembly,  the temporary president of the senate and the commissioner on
    21  the results of the first three years of the program, including the  cost
    22  and  benefit  analysis  of  increased  or decreased costs for the school
    23  district and the state, and the impact on student attendance and academ-
    24  ic performance of the school district, on or before September fifteenth,
    25  two thousand twenty-two.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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