A06429 Summary:

BILL NOA06429
 
SAME ASSAME AS S00044
 
SPONSORWeisenberg
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S3635, Ed L
 
Allows boards of education to provide transportation to and from school for a child for a lesser distance than two miles if the parent or guardian of the child has a physically limiting disability which renders him or her unable to accompany the child to and from school.
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A06429 Actions:

BILL NOA06429
 
03/03/2009referred to education
01/06/2010referred to education
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A06429 Floor Votes:

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A06429 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6429
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      March 3, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEISENBERG  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting  boards  of
          education to grant parents or guardians, physically limited by a disa-
          bility, the ability to obtain bus services for their children
 

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 3635 of the  educa-
     2  tion  law,  as  amended by chapter 69 of the laws of 1992, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    a. (i) Sufficient transportation facilities (including  the  operation
     5  and  maintenance  of  motor  vehicles)  shall  be provided by the school
     6  district for all the children residing within the school district to and
     7  from the school they legally attend, who are in need of such transporta-
     8  tion because of the remoteness of the school to the  child  or  for  the
     9  promotion  of  the  best interest of such children.  Such transportation
    10  shall be provided for all children attending grades kindergarten through
    11  eight who live more than two miles from the school  which  they  legally

    12  attend  and  for  all  children attending grades nine through twelve who
    13  live more than three miles from the school which they legally attend and
    14  shall be provided for each such child up to a distance of fifteen miles,
    15  the distances in each case being measured by the nearest available route
    16  from home to school. The cost of providing such  transportation  between
    17  two  or  three  miles,  as  the  case may be, and fifteen miles shall be
    18  considered for the purposes of this chapter to  be  a  charge  upon  the
    19  district and an ordinary contingent expense of the district. Transporta-
    20  tion  for  a  lesser  distance  than  two  miles in the case of children
    21  attending grades kindergarten through eight or three miles in  the  case
    22  of  children  attending  grades  nine  through  twelve and for a greater
    23  distance than fifteen miles may be provided by  the  district,  and,  if

    24  provided, shall be offered equally to all children in like circumstances
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00951-01-9

        A. 6429                             2
 
     1  residing in the district and may, upon a resolution adopted by the board
     2  of education and for a period of time as approved by the board of educa-
     3  tion,  be  provided  for  such  lesser distances based upon such board's
     4  determination  that  the  parent or guardian of a child has a physically
     5  limiting disability which renders him or her  unable  to  accompany  the
     6  child  to or from school; provided, however, that this requirement shall

     7  not apply to  transportation  offered  pursuant  to  section  thirty-six
     8  hundred thirty-five-b of this article.
     9    (ii)  Proof of a physically limiting disability which renders a parent
    10  or guardian of a child unable to accompany the child to or  from  school
    11  shall be certified by a doctor in a form to be prescribed by the depart-
    12  ment.
    13    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    14  the date on which it shall have become a law.
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