STATE OF NEW YORK
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4513
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 5, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- 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 requiring a rider
verification system to be established for certain special transporta-
tion passengers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3623-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3623-b. Rider verification of certain special transportation passen-
4 gers. Every transporter, school district and county that transports a
5 special transportation passenger that is a medicaid or state eligible
6 reimbursable passenger shall provide a paperless rider verification
7 system for determining student attendance on each school bus, that mini-
8 mizes inaccuracies in medicaid and state documentation. The ride
9 verification method and appurtenances shall be provided in a manner that
10 does not require a passenger to aid in the verification process by
11 carrying an identification tag, card, or other items.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
13 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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