Bill Text: NY A03723 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the chancellor of the New York city school district to establish, in consultation with the metropolitan transportation authority, a student fare program to provide three free fares each weekday to New York city students who live a half mile or more from the school they attend.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A03723 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03723-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3723

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, SAYEGH, SIMON, REYES, DICK-
          ENS, MAMDANI, AUBRY, GIBBS, CRUZ, JACKSON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, CARROLL  --
          read  once  and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to directing the chancel-
          lor of the New York city school district to establish a  student  fare
          program

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 2590-h of the education law is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision 57 to read as follows:
     3     57.  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law to the contrary, to
     4  establish, in consultation with the metropolitan transportation authori-
     5  ty, a student fare program. Such program shall provide three free  fares
     6  between  5:00  a.m. and 10:00 p.m. each weekday for every student in the
     7  city school district who attends kindergarten through twelfth grade  and
     8  who resides a half mile or more from the school such student attends.
     9    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    10  the date on which it shall have become a law;  provided,  however,  that
    11  the  amendments  to  section 2590-h of the education law made by section
    12  one of this act shall not affect the  expiration  of  such  section  and
    13  shall  be  deemed repealed therewith.   Effective immediately, the addi-
    14  tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  necessary  for
    15  the  implementation  of this act on its effective date are authorized to
    16  be made and completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02482-01-3
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