STATE OF NEW YORK
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8266--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SUTTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education --
recommitted to the Committee on New York City Education in accordance
with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing transporta-
tion after four o'clock
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3627 of the education law, as
2 amended by section 12 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2025, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any
5 expenditures for transportation provided pursuant to this section in the
6 two thousand thirteen--two thousand fourteen school year and thereafter
7 and otherwise eligible for transportation aid pursuant to subdivision
8 seven of section thirty-six hundred two of this article shall be consid-
9 ered approved transportation expenses eligible for transportation aid,
10 provided further that for the two thousand thirteen--two thousand four-
11 teen school year such aid shall be limited to eight million one hundred
12 thousand dollars and for the two thousand fourteen--two thousand fifteen
13 school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of twelve million six
14 hundred thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the two thousand
15 fifteen--two thousand sixteen school year through two thousand eigh-
16 teen--two thousand nineteen school year such aid shall be limited to the
17 sum of eighteen million eight hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the
18 base amount and for the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty
19 school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of nineteen million
20 three hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the
21 two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one school year such aid shall
22 be limited to the sum of nineteen million eight hundred fifty thousand
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 dollars plus the base amount and for the two thousand twenty-two--two
2 thousand twenty-three school year such aid shall be limited to the sum
3 of twenty-two million three hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base
4 amount and for the two thousand twenty-three--two thousand twenty-four
5 school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of twenty-four million
6 eight hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the
7 two thousand twenty-four--two thousand twenty-five school year such aid
8 shall be limited to the sum of twenty-nine million eight hundred fifty
9 thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the two thousand twenty-
10 five--two thousand twenty-six school year and thereafter such aid shall
11 be limited to the product of (i) the maximum amount of aid authorized by
12 this subdivision for the base year, and (ii) the sum of one plus the
13 product of (a) two and one-half multiplied by (b) the percentage
14 increase in the consumer price index as defined in paragraph hh of
15 subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred two of this article. For
16 purposes of this subdivision, "base amount" means the amount of trans-
17 portation aid paid to the school district for expenditures incurred in
18 the two thousand twelve--two thousand thirteen school year for transpor-
19 tation that would have been eligible for aid pursuant to this section
20 had this section been in effect in such school year, except that subdi-
21 vision six of this section shall be deemed not to have been in effect.
22 And provided further that the school district shall continue to annually
23 expend for the transportation described in subdivision one of this
24 section at least the expenditures used for the base [amount] year,
25 including, but not limited to increases in the reimbursable transporta-
26 tion cost per student.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.
