Allows certain school districts to provide home-to-school transportation based upon patterns of actual ridership without regard to the number of students eligible for transportation and the number of seats otherwise required by law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1244
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to student transportation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3635 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
3 8. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation, in
4 school districts having an area of forty square miles or less, if the
5 board of education determines, based upon history and experience, that
6 there is a consistent pattern of eligible pupils not using the transpor-
7 tation provided by the district, the board, in its discretion, may enact
8 a policy to provide student transportation based upon patterns of actual
9 ridership without regard to:
10 a. the number of students eligible for transportation; and
11 b. the number of seats that would otherwise be required for them under
12 paragraph a of subdivision one of this section.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01522-01-1
