Includes remedial services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility of the city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7623
SPONSOR: Pheffer Amato TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to including remedial
services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility of
the city school district located in a city having a population of one
million or more
PURPOSE:
To allow students who are receiving remedial services, childcare, or
working on homework to be included in New York City's After 4pm busing
program.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 1 of section 3627 of the education
law are amended to add remedial services, homework or childcare, to the
situations where NYCDOE is required to provide or reimburse for trans-
portation of children under certain circumstances.
JUSTIFICATION:
Currently, the NYCDOE is required to reimburse for transportation of
students in grades K-6, who attend school from 9:30 AM (or earlier) for
regularly scheduled academic classes through 4:00 PM or later. This
highly successful program has been a lifeline for parents across New
York City.
Unfortunately, there are students who attend a school where academic
classes end before 4pm, but the students still remain at the school to
receive remedial or tutoring help, childcare, or to do their homework.
Under the current law, these students are not allowed to get transporta-
tion from NYCDOE. This oversight has been challenging, especially in
cases when one sibling attends class until 4pm and can take the bus,
while another sibling who attends the same school and stays until after
4pm with a tutor, would not be able to take the bus. This legislation
would correct this oversight and help many hard-working parents.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill
FISCAL IMPACT:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act would take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7623
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 25, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including remedial
services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility
of the city school district located in a city having a population of
one million or more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 1 of section 3627 of
2 the education law, as amended by section 7 of part A of chapter 56 of
3 the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows:
4 (a) providing transportation for those children attending public and
5 nonpublic schools in grades kindergarten through six who remain at the
6 same school for which they are enrolled for regularly scheduled academic
7 classes or for remedial services, homework or childcare from half-past
8 nine o'clock in the morning or earlier until four o'clock in the after-
9 noon or later, on weekdays, and reside at least one mile from their
10 school of attendance for grades three through six, and at least one-half
11 mile from their school of attendance for grades kindergarten through two
12 or
13 (b) reimbursing the cost incurred by licensed transportation carriers
14 pursuant to contracts with such school district for providing transpor-
15 tation for those children attending public and nonpublic schools in
16 grades kindergarten through six who remain at the same school for which
17 they are enrolled for regularly scheduled academic classes or for reme-
18 dial services, homework or childcare from half-past nine o'clock in the
19 morning or earlier until four o'clock in the afternoon or later, on
20 weekdays, and reside at least one mile from their school of attendance
21 for grades three through six, and at least one-half mile from their
22 school of attendance for grades kindergarten through two.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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