Relates to providing transportation for children with a disability; removes the requirement that a child attends the school the district is providing transportation to for the purpose of receiving services or programs similar to special educational programs recommended for such child by the local committee on special education.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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570
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, R. CARROLL, BICHOTTE HERMELYN,
WEPRIN, BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing transporta-
tion for children with handicapping conditions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 4 of section 4402 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 371 of the laws of 2023, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 d. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, such board shall
5 provide suitable transportation up to a distance of fifty miles to and
6 from a nonpublic school which a child with a disability attends if such
7 child has been so identified by the local committee on special education
8 [and such child attends such school for the purpose of receiving
9 services or programs similar to special educational programs recommended
10 for such child by the local committee on special education].
11 § 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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