Directs the chancellor of the New York city school district to establish, in consultation with the metropolitan transportation authority, a student fare program to provide three free fares each weekday to New York city students who live a half mile or more from the school they attend.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8244--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 25, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, SAYEGH, SIMON, GOTTFRIED,
FERNANDEZ, REYES, DICKENS, MAMDANI, J. RIVERA, AUBRY, GIBBS, CRUZ,
JACKSON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accordance
with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to directing the chancel-
lor of the New York city school district to establish a student fare
program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2590-h of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 57 to read as follows:
3 57. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, to
4 establish, in consultation with the metropolitan transportation authori-
5 ty, a student fare program. Such program shall provide three free fares
6 between 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. each weekday for every student in the
7 city school district who attends kindergarten through twelfth grade and
8 who resides a half mile or more from the school such student attends.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
10 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that
11 the amendments to section 2590-h of the education law made by section
12 one of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and
13 shall be deemed repealed therewith. Effective immediately, the addi-
14 tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for
15 the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to
16 be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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