Bill Text: NY S04513 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-07 - referred to education [S04513 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04513-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4513--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 25, 2015
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        Introduced by Sens. LANZA, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        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 55 to read as follows:
     3    55. 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.
                                                                   LBD00861-02-6