Bill Text: NY A03871 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a school bus attendant or school bus monitor on all school buses transporting students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or to or from any school related activity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-28 - print number 3871a [A03871 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3871

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BURKE, DARLING -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring  a
          school bus attendant on all school buses

          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 1229-d of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law,  as added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (1) (a) Every school bus operating in this state, which is  transport-
     5  ing students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or to
     6  or  from  any school related activity, shall have a school bus attendant
     7  on board.
     8    (b) The school bus attendant required by this section shall, in  addi-
     9  tion  to  keeping  order  on  the bus, assist any child under the age of
    10  thirteen, or any student with a disability with boarding and leaving the
    11  bus and by crossing the street with the child where necessary.
    12    (c) "School bus attendant" shall mean a person employed or  authorized
    13  by a school district to ride on a school bus as defined in paragraph (a)
    14  of  subdivision  one  of section five hundred nine-a of this chapter for
    15  the purpose of  maintaining  order  [or]  and  rendering  assistance  to
    16  [pupils with special needs] students, including any student with a disa-
    17  bility.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.



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