Bill Text: NY A02626 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2626 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to develop guidelines for transportation of students on field trips.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-23 - held for consideration in education [A02626 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A02626-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2626
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 19, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Education
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to authorizing and
         directing the commissioner 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 42 to read as follows:
    3    42.  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    S 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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