Provides that fifty percent of the cost of transportation of students to and from extracurricular activities shall be included in regular aidable transportation; provides that a school district shall only receive fifty percent of the cost of such transportation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2448
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 21, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expenses for transpor-
tation of students to and from extracurricular activities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 6 and 7 of section 3622-a of the education
2 law, subdivision 6 as amended and subdivision 7 as added by chapter 422
3 of the laws of 2004, are amended and a new subdivision 8 is added to
4 read as follows:
5 6. Transportation of pupils to and from approved summer school
6 programs operated by a school district in the two thousand--two thousand
7 one school year and thereafter, provided, however, that any expenses for
8 which aid is received pursuant to subdivision thirty-nine of section
9 thirty-six hundred two of this article shall be excluded from the compu-
10 tation of allowable transportation expense, and provided further that if
11 the total statewide apportionment attributable to allowable transporta-
12 tion expenses incurred pursuant to this subdivision exceeds five million
13 dollars ($5,000,000), individual school district allocations shall be
14 prorated to ensure that the apportionment for such summer transportation
15 does not exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000), provided that such
16 prorated apportionment computed and payable as of September one of the
17 school year immediately following the school year for which such aid is
18 claimed shall be deemed final and not subject to change; [and]
19 7. Transportation provided pursuant to section thirty-six hundred
20 thirty-five-b of this article[.]; and
21 8. Transportation of pupils to and from school sponsored extracurric-
22 ular activities, provided however that a school district shall only
23 receive fifty percent of the cost of such transportation.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to school
25 years beginning on and after July 1, 2012.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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