S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2893 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 21, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CALHOUN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CONTE, J. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to transportation services THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 3635 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2-a. The superintendent of each [city] school district[, in a city 5 having a population in excess of one million,] shall prepare a public 6 school calendar and shall notify officials of nonpublic schools to which 7 transportation has been requested not later than the first day of June 8 in each year, of the days on which the public schools will be in session 9 in the following school year. Such school district which provides trans- 10 portation to nonpublic schools shall provide such transportation for the 11 same number of days as the public schools are open but shall not provide 12 transportation services for more than one hundred eighty days. Offi- 13 cials of each nonpublic school to which transportation is provided by a 14 [city] school district [of a city having a population in excess of one 15 million] may notify such district, not later than the first day of July 16 of each school year, of a maximum of five days, exclusive of Saturdays, 17 Sundays or legal holidays upon which public schools are required to be 18 closed, on which the public schools are scheduled to be closed, except 19 that in any year in which the first or last day of Passover and Easter 20 Sunday are separated by more than seven days, such officials may notify 21 the district of a maximum of ten days, but such school district will be 22 required to provide for transportation to such nonpublic school provided 23 that such five or ten additional days, whichever is applicable, are 24 limited to the following: the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 25 after Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the week in which public EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02826-01-1 A. 2893 2 1 schools are closed for spring recess, December twenty-fourth and the 2 week between Christmas day and New Year's day, the Tuesday, Wednesday, 3 Thursday and Friday after the observance of Washington's birthday, and, 4 in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens only, Anniversary Day as desig- 5 nated in section twenty-five hundred eighty-six of this chapter. 6 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.