Extends the date by which school districts must purchase and solely operate and maintain zero-emission school buses; authorizes certain school districts to apply for and be granted an annual one-year extension for compliance with zero-emission school bus requirements until 2045.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9187
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 3, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the purchase and oper-
ation of zero-emission school buses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of
2 section 3638 of the education law, as added by section 1 of subpart A of
3 part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
4 No later than July first, two thousand [twenty-seven] thirty, every
5 school district shall:
6 § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 3 of section 3638 of the
7 education law, as added by section 1 of subpart A of part B of chapter
8 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
9 No later than July first, two thousand [thirty-five] forty, every
10 school district shall:
11 § 3. Section 3638 of the education law is amended by adding a new
12 subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
13 4-a. A school district with an average daily attendance of fewer than
14 six hundred students or fewer than ten residences per square mile may
15 apply annually to the commissioner for a one-year extension to comply
16 with the requirements of subdivisions two and three of this section. The
17 department may grant such one-year extensions annually until the year
18 two thousand forty-five.
19 § 4. 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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