Bill Text: NY S00397 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 397 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to develop guidelines for transportation of students on field trips.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00397 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00397-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           397
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  and
          directing  the  commissioner  of  education  to develop guidelines for
          transportation of students on field trips
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 57 to read as follows:
     3    57.  The commissioner is authorized and directed to develop guidelines
     4  for the transportation of pupils attending school in the boroughs of the
     5  Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island to the location  of
     6  field  trips during and outside of school hours on school buses owned or
     7  leased by school districts located in such  boroughs.    Notwithstanding
     8  any  provision to the contrary, such transportation shall be provided to
     9  locations within twenty miles outside of the boundaries of the  boroughs
    10  of  the  Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island and to any
    11  location within the county in which the school district is located.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03273-01-9