STATE OF NEW YORK
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1495
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. FAHY, SKOUFIS -- 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 universal pre-kinder-
garten school bus transportation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph g of subdivision 1 of section 3635 of the educa-
2 tion law, as added by chapter 244 of the laws of 2012, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 g. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
5 trustees or board of education of any school district may, in its
6 discretion, provide transportation for students attending a universal
7 pre-kindergarten program in addition to transportation funded by such
8 program or transportation for students attending another district spon-
9 sored or district-run pre-kindergarten program, within mileage limits
10 established by the school district; if provided such transportation
11 shall be offered equally to all children in like circumstances residing
12 in the district. The cost of providing such transportation shall be a
13 charge upon the district [and]; provided that for purposes of subdivi-
14 sion seven of section thirty-six hundred two of this [chapter] article,
15 such pupils shall be considered [non] allowable pupils and the costs of
16 their transportation shall [not] be aidable.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
18 2027--2028 school year and all school years commencing thereafter.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03510-01-5
