Authorizes school districts to use school transportation aid to pay for the cost and expenses of transporting and delivering meals, homework materials and any other school materials to students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8585--A
IN SENATE
June 16, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school
districts to use school transportation aid to pay for the cost and
expenses of transporting and delivering meals, homework materials and
any other school materials to students during the COVID-19 pandemic
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3622-a of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
3 8. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
4 transportation of meals, educational materials, and any other school-
5 related materials for the period that began with the declaration of the
6 state of emergency declared as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that
7 was executed in executive order two hundred two that began on March
8 seventh, two thousand twenty.
9 § 2. Paragraph e of subdivision 1 of section 3623-a of the education
10 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 12 to read as follows:
11 (12) notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
12 transportation of meals, educational materials, and any other school-
13 related materials for the period that began with the declaration of the
14 state of emergency declared as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that
15 was executed in executive order two hundred two that began on March
16 seventh, two thousand twenty.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16721-02-0
