Enacts the school bus mandate relief act authorizing school districts, in their discretion, to provide student transportation based upon patterns of actual ridership.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4434--A
Cal. No. 369
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- reported
favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report,
ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the school
bus mandate relief act
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "school bus
2 mandate relief act".
3 § 2. Section 3635 of the education law is amended by adding a new
4 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
5 8. A board of education may, at its discretion, provide student
6 transportation based upon patterns of actual ridership. The actual
7 ridership shall be based upon the history and experience that yields a
8 consistent pattern of eligible pupils not using district transportation;
9 or modeling of future ridership; or the sharing of transportation
10 regionally; or other criteria determined by the school district that
11 ensures that all students in need of transportation receive it. Nothing
12 in this section shall reduce or relieve school districts from the
13 responsibility of providing transportation to students otherwise eligi-
14 ble and actually in need of such transportation. Any school district
15 that, at its discretion, has elected to provide student transportation
16 based upon patterns of actual ridership shall place such plans on the
17 school district's website on or before August fifteenth of the school
18 year in which the transportation plan will be implemented.
19 § 3. 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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