Provides that, where practicable, the youngest children shall be seated in the front of the school bus and the oldest children seated in the rear of the school bus; further provides that children with disabilities or disorders that result in communication difficulties shall be seated closest to the driver.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1991
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school bus seating
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3635-d
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3635-d. School bus seating. Where practicable, the youngest children
4 shall be seated in the front of the school bus and the oldest children
5 seated in the rear of the school bus. Additionally, any children with
6 disabilities or disorders that result in communication difficulties,
7 shall be seated in the front of the school bus closest to the driver.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
9 the date on which 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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