Provides that the department of education of the city of New York shall provide school bus service for students in grades K through 6 who live 1/2 mile or more from school.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7431
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 6, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to requiring the department of education of the city of New
York to provide school bus service to students in grades kindergarten
through six who reside one-half mile or more from school
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision b of section 19-606 of the administrative code
2 of the city of New York, as added by local law number 48 of the city of
3 New York for the year 2000, is amended to read as follows:
4 b. 1. The department of education shall provide school bus service to
5 all general education students who live one-half mile or more from the
6 school they attend and who are enrolled in a grade from kindergarten
7 through six, inclusive.
8 2. The [board] department of education shall prepare and, when neces-
9 sary, revise two school bus service plans annually to ensure that all
10 students eligible to receive school bus service to and from the schools
11 they legally attend shall be provided with a seat on a school bus. One
12 plan shall relate to school bus service to be provided during the
13 session of the school year beginning in September and ending in June and
14 one plan shall relate to school bus service to be provided during a
15 summer school session. Each plan shall be prepared prior to the first
16 day of the session of the school year to which it relates and shall
17 include the following information: (i) the criteria used by the [board]
18 department of education to determine whether a student is eligible to
19 receive school bus service; (ii) for each school, a summary description
20 of the school bus routes servicing the school; (iii) for each school bus
21 route, the number of students eligible to ride on the school bus operat-
22 ing on the route and the maximum seating capacity of such school bus;
23 and (iv) any other information the [board] department of education deems
24 relevant. Upon completion of the plans, they shall be submitted to the
25 mayor and the speaker of the city council.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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