Requires certain public and nonpublic schools to provide transportation or reimburse costs incurred for such transportation for certain students residing in an area containing at least three hundred students within a one-mile radius.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5886
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 requiring certain
public and nonpublic schools to provide transportation or reimburse-
ment for transportation for certain students residing in an area
containing at least three hundred students within a one-mile radius
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 3627 of the
2 education law, as amended by section 7 of part A of chapter 56 of the
3 laws of 2014, is amended and a new paragraph (c) is added to read as
4 follows:
5 (b) reimbursing the cost incurred by licensed transportation carriers
6 pursuant to contracts with such school district for providing transpor-
7 tation for those children attending public and nonpublic schools in
8 grades kindergarten through six who remain at the same school for which
9 they are enrolled for regularly scheduled academic classes from half-
10 past nine o'clock in the morning or earlier until four o'clock in the
11 afternoon or later, on weekdays, and reside at least one mile from their
12 school of attendance for grades three through six, and at least one-half
13 mile from their school of attendance for grades kindergarten through
14 two[.] and
15 (c) notwithstanding section thirty-six hundred thirty-five of this
16 article or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, providing
17 transportation of up to fifteen miles or reimbursing the costs incurred
18 by licensed transportation carriers pursuant to contracts with the
19 school district for providing such transportation, regardless of borough
20 or county lines, for those children attending public and nonpublic
21 schools in grades kindergarten through six who remain at the same school
22 for which they are enrolled for regularly scheduled academic classes
23 from half-past nine o'clock in the morning or earlier until four o'clock
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 in the afternoon or later, on weekdays, and reside in an area containing
2 at least three hundred students within a one-mile radius; provided,
3 however, that this paragraph shall only apply to students who, during
4 the two thousand twenty-four--two thousand twenty-five school year,
5 resided in the borough of the school they are currently attending and
6 who no longer reside in such borough and to the siblings of such
7 students; and provided further, however, that any reimbursement costs
8 incurred by a city having a population of one million or more pursuant
9 to this paragraph shall not exceed the maximum amount allowed pursuant
10 to this section.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
