Bill Text: NY S00446 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 446 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Enables high school students to use public transportation without charge in order to ride to and from school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00446 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00446-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           446

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, KAVANAGH, SALAZAR, THOMAS -- 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 enabling  high  school
          students to use public transportation to ride to and from school at no
          charge

          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 a-1 to read as follows:
     3    a-1.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law, all high school
     4  students attending a public or nonpublic school shall be entitled to the
     5  use of public transportation without charge for no more than  one  daily
     6  round-trip  ride  on any school day from their residences to the schools
     7  which they attend and from such schools to their residences. Each school
     8  district shall provide a suitable identification card  to  each  of  its
     9  students  in  order  for the public transportation system utilized to be
    10  able to determine each student's entitlement to this benefit.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.




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