Bill Text: NY A02811 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

---

Bill Title: Requires community district education councils to establish safety hazard advisory review committees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A02811 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02811-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2811
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. NOLAN, CUSICK, TITONE, PERRY -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  requiring  community
          district education councils to establish safety hazard advisory review
          committees
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 2590-e of the education law is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
     3    8-a.  (a) A community council shall establish from among its members a
     4  safety hazard advisory  review  committee  to  review  conditions  along
     5  routes  in  its  district  by  which students travel or walk to and from
     6  school. The safety hazard advisory review committee shall review  condi-
     7  tions along stop to school routes in its community council district upon
     8  the  request of a parent who has submitted to the office of pupil trans-
     9  portation a request for a variance from stop to school routes  based  on
    10  hazardous  or  unsafe  conditions  along  the student's route to or from
    11  school. Such request shall be submitted in writing to the chair  of  the
    12  community  council  and  include  a  copy of the parent's request to the
    13  office of pupil transportation for a  variance.  The  community  council
    14  chair  shall  convene  a  meeting  of  the safety hazard advisory review
    15  committee as necessary. The committee shall make findings  of  fact  and
    16  recommendations  about  conditions  along the stop to school route. Such
    17  findings and recommendations shall be submitted in writing to the commu-
    18  nity council which may adopt the  committee's  recommendations  or  send
    19  them  back to the committee for additional information. Upon adoption of
    20  the committee's findings  and  recommendations,  the  community  council
    21  shall  send  the  written findings and recommendations to the parent and
    22  the office of pupil transportation which shall consider the findings and
    23  recommendations from the community council in its decision about a vari-
    24  ance or designation of stop to school routes.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03587-01-5