STATE OF NEW YORK
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3074
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 27, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 authorizing and
directing the commissioner of education to develop guidelines for
transportation of students on field trips
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 57 to read as follows:
3 57. The commissioner is authorized and directed to develop guidelines
4 for the transportation of pupils attending school in the boroughs of the
5 Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island to the location of
6 field trips during and outside of school hours on school buses owned or
7 leased by school districts located in such boroughs. Notwithstanding
8 any provision to the contrary, such transportation shall be provided to
9 locations within twenty miles outside of the boundaries of the boroughs
10 of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island and to any
11 location within the county in which the school district is located.
12 § 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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