De La Rosa, Dickens, Barron, Simon, Reilly, Cruz, DeStefano
MLTSPNSR
Abbate, Hevesi
Amd 3635, Ed L
Prohibits a school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants from changing the transportation accommodation of an older sibling who lives with and goes to either the same school as or a school located at the same place as a younger sibling who shares the same transportation accommodation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2018
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES, DE LA ROSA, DICKENS, BARRON, SIMON, REIL-
LY, CRUZ, DeSTEFANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, HEVESI
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to transportation accom-
modations for siblings
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 9 to read as follows:
3 9. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no school
4 district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabit-
5 ants shall change a transportation accommodation for a child who:
6 a. attends grade kindergarten through eight;
7 b. has a younger sibling who:
8 (i) attends grade kindergarten through eight;
9 (ii) has a transportation accommodation either to the same school or a
10 school at the same physical location; and
11 (iii) lives at the same address; and
12 c. either currently or at any point previously had the same transpor-
13 tation accommodation as such younger sibling.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
15 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.
LBD00072-01-1
