Provides that the New York city school district shall reimburse parents for the cost of certain transportation which is provided by parents where children remain in school until 5:00 pm or later for regularly scheduled academic classes.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4354
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 21, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 reimbursement of
certain transportation costs provided by parents of students
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3635 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. Any other provision of this section to the contrary notwithstand-
4 ing, the parent or guardian of a child or children may elect to provide
5 transportation otherwise authorized or directed by this chapter, to one
6 or more of such children in the case where one or more children in
7 grades kindergarten through sixth grade remain at school for regularly
8 scheduled academic classes until five o'clock in the afternoon, or
9 later, on weekdays, and reside at least one-half mile from their school
10 of attendance for grades kindergarten through two, and at least one mile
11 from their school of attendance for grades three through six. In such a
12 case, the cost of the parents provision of such transportation shall be
13 considered for the purposes of this chapter to be a charge upon the
14 district and an ordinary contingent expense of the district, so long as
15 such child or children shall be otherwise eligible for the provision of
16 transportation pursuant to this section, and the parent or guardian or
17 any representative authorized by such parent or guardian shall have
18 notified the school district in writing in the same manner and upon the
19 same dates as are required for a request for transportation pursuant to
20 subdivision two of this section, provided, however, that this subdivi-
21 sion shall only apply to the city school district of the city of New
22 York, and further provided that transportation for a lesser distance or
23 an earlier time than specified in this subdivision may be provided by
24 such district, and, if provided, shall be offered equally to all chil-
25 dren in like circumstances residing in the district. If the requirements
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of this subdivision have been met, the chancellor of such city school
2 district shall prescribe a system under which the school district shall
3 reimburse the parent or guardian of such children in an amount not to
4 exceed the amount it would otherwise expend to provide transportation
5 services for the equivalent child or number of children, and such
6 expenses shall be deemed an actual expenditure by the school district
7 and such district shall be entitled to an apportionment for pupil trans-
8 portation state aid pursuant to this chapter for such child or children
9 in the same manner and at the same rate as if such child or children
10 received transportation services otherwise authorized by this section.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
12 the date on which it shall have become a law.
