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A11021 Summary:

BILL NOA11021
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03859
 
SPONSORRules (Cusick)
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §3627, Ed L
 
Requires certain public and nonpublic schools to provide transportation or reimburse costs incurred for such transportation for certain students residing in an area containing at least three hundred students within a one-mile radius.
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A11021 Actions:

BILL NOA11021
 
09/16/2020referred to education
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A11021 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          11021
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                   September 16, 2020
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  requiring  certain
          public  and  nonpublic schools to provide transportation or reimburse-
          ment for transportation for  certain  students  residing  in  an  area
          containing at least three hundred students within a one-mile radius

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  1  of  section  3627  of  the
     2  education  law,  as  amended by section 7 of part A of chapter 56 of the
     3  laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) reimbursing the cost incurred by licensed transportation  carriers
     5  pursuant  to contracts with such school district for providing transpor-
     6  tation for those children attending  public  and  nonpublic  schools  in
     7  grades  kindergarten through six who remain at the same school for which
     8  they are enrolled for regularly scheduled academic  classes  from  half-
     9  past  nine  o'clock  in the morning or earlier until four o'clock in the
    10  afternoon or later, on weekdays, and reside at least one mile from their
    11  school of attendance for grades three through six, and at least one-half
    12  mile from their school of attendance for grades kindergarten through two
    13  and
    14    (c) notwithstanding section thirty-six  hundred  thirty-five  of  this
    15  article or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, providing
    16  transportation  of up to fifteen miles or reimbursing the costs incurred
    17  by licensed transportation  carriers  pursuant  to  contracts  with  the
    18  school district for providing such transportation, regardless of borough
    19  or  county  lines,  for  those  children  attending public and nonpublic
    20  schools in grades kindergarten through six who remain at the same school
    21  for which they are enrolled for  regularly  scheduled  academic  classes
    22  from half-past nine o'clock in the morning or earlier until four o'clock
    23  in the afternoon or later, on weekdays, and reside in an area containing
    24  at  least  three  hundred  students  within a one-mile radius; provided,
    25  however, that this paragraph shall only apply to  students  who,  during
    26  the  two  thousand  fifteen-two thousand sixteen school year, resided in
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10017-01-9

        A. 11021                            2
 
     1  the borough of the school they are currently attending and who no longer
     2  reside in such borough  and  to  the  siblings  of  such  students;  and
     3  provided  further,  however,  that any reimbursement costs incurred by a
     4  city  having  a population of one million or more pursuant to this para-
     5  graph shall not exceed the  maximum  amount  allowed  pursuant  to  this
     6  section.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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