Bill Text: NY A01840 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to transportation services for children residing in the city school district of the city of Syracuse.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A01840 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01840-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1840
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. MAGNARELLI, HUNTER -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  city  school
          district of the city of Syracuse
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  3635  of  the  education  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as follows:
     3    h.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law to the contrary, the
     4  city school district of the city of Syracuse, pursuant to adoption of  a
     5  resolution  by  the  board  of education setting forth a plan, may enter
     6  into a pilot program not to exceed five school years  beginning  in  the
     7  two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty school year to provide trans-
     8  portation  services  for children residing within the district attending
     9  kindergarten through grade five who live  one  mile  or  more  from  the
    10  school  they  legally attend. Such transportation shall be restricted to
    11  transportation to and from children's homes or  before  or  after-school
    12  child care locations and, if offered, shall be provided for each student
    13  up  to  a distance of fifteen miles, provided, however that the board of
    14  education of the city school district  may  approve  transportation  for
    15  children who live within one mile from the school they legally attend if
    16  such  transportation is necessary due to safety concerns. Transportation
    17  pursuant to this paragraph shall be offered equally to all  children  in
    18  like circumstances residing in the district.  For the purpose of comput-
    19  ing  approved  transportation  expenses for transportation aid, expenses
    20  for  transportation  provided  pursuant  to  this  paragraph  shall   be
    21  included.  The  city  school  district  of  the city of Syracuse   shall
    22  provide a report to the governor,  the  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the
    23  temporary president of the senate and the commissioner on the results of
    24  the  first four years of the pilot program, including the cost and bene-
    25  fit analysis of  increased  or  decreased  costs  for  the  city  school
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01942-01-9
        A. 1840                             2
     1  district and the state, and the impact on student attendance and academ-
     2  ic  performance  of  the  school  district, on or before September thir-
     3  teenth, two thousand twenty-three.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.