STATE OF NEW YORK
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1696
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, KAVANAGH, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa-
tion
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enabling high school
students to use public transportation to ride to and from school at no
charge
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3635 of the education law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as follows:
3 a-1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all high school
4 students attending a public or nonpublic school shall be entitled to the
5 use of public transportation without charge for no more than one daily
6 round-trip ride on any school day from their residences to the schools
7 which they attend and from such schools to their residences. Each school
8 district shall provide a suitable identification card to each of its
9 students in order for the public transportation system utilized to be
10 able to determine each student's entitlement to this benefit.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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