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