Arroyo, DeStefano, D'Urso, Cruz, Blake, Mosley, Reilly, Lawrence, Simon, De La Rosa, Barron,
Dickens
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Abbate, DenDekker, 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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8151--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES, ARROYO, DeSTEFANO, D'URSO, CRUZ, BLAKE,
MOSLEY, REILLY, LAWRENCE, SIMON, DE LA ROSA, BARRON, DICKENS --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, DenDEKKER, HEVESI -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the
Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
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.
LBD13077-02-9
