Bill Text: NY S05172 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a school bus attendant on all school buses transporting students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or from any school related activity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-15 - PRINT NUMBER 5172A [S05172 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05172-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5172--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 12, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation  --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee on Transportation 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 vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring a
          school bus attendant on all school buses

          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 1229-d of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (1)  (a) Every school bus operating in this state, which is transport-
     5  ing students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or to
     6  or from any school related activity, shall have a school  bus  attendant
     7  on board.
     8    (b)  The school bus attendant required by this section shall, in addi-
     9  tion to keeping order on the bus, assist any  child  under  the  age  of
    10  thirteen, or any student with a disability with boarding and leaving the
    11  bus and by crossing the street with the child where necessary.
    12    (c)  "School bus attendant" shall mean a person employed or authorized
    13  by a school district to ride on a school bus as defined in paragraph (a)
    14  of subdivision one of section five hundred nine-a of  this  chapter  for
    15  the  purpose  of  maintaining  order  [or]  and  rendering assistance to
    16  [pupils with special needs] students, including any student with a disa-
    17  bility.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11192-02-0