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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5314
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2025
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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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