Bill Text: NY A04442 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4442 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An act to amend the education law, in relation to providing school bus attendants on all buses transporting certain students in the city school district of the city of New York; and to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to expanding the duties of a school bus attendant

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to education [A04442 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A04442-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4442
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 4, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. MARKEY, WEISENBERG, BENEDETTO, MILLMAN, CARROZZA,
         TITUS  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. COLTON, DINOWITZ, V. LOPEZ,
         MAISEL, MAYERSOHN, PHEFFER -- read once and referred to the  Committee
         on Education
       AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to providing school bus
         attendants on all buses transporting  certain  students  in  the  city
         school  district of the city of New York; and to amend the vehicle and
         traffic law, in relation to expanding  the  duties  of  a  school  bus
         attendant
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 2590-g of the education law is amended by adding  a
    2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    3    7.  PROVIDE  SCHOOL BUS ATTENDANTS, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE THOUSAND
    4  TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE-D OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, FOR ALL SCHOOL
    5  BUSES OR VANS  TRANSPORTING  STUDENTS  IN  GRADES  KINDERGARTEN  THROUGH
    6  EIGHTH  GRADE IN THE CITY DISTRICT TO AND FROM SCHOOL OR TO AND FROM ANY
    7  SCHOOL RELATED ACTIVITY.
    8    S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1229-d of the vehicle and  traffic  law,
    9  as  added  by  chapter  675  of  the laws of 1985, is amended to read as
   10  follows:
   11    (1) "School bus attendant" shall mean a person employed or  authorized
   12  by a school district to ride on a school bus as defined in paragraph (a)
   13  of  subdivision  one  of section five hundred nine-a of this chapter for
   14  the purpose of maintaining order [or] ON THE BUS,  ASSISTING  ANY  CHILD
   15  UNDER  THE  AGE OF THIRTEEN OR ANY HANDICAPPED STUDENT WITH BOARDING AND
   16  LEAVING THE BUS, ASSISTING ANY CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF  THIRTEEN  OR  ANY
   17  HANDICAPPED  STUDENT  BY CROSSING THE STREET WITH SUCH CHILD OR STUDENT,
   18  AND rendering assistance to pupils with special needs.
   19    S 3. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
   20  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided howev-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  er  that  the  amendments to section 2590-g of the education law made by
    2  section one of this act shall survive the expiration  and  reversion  of
    3  such  section  as  provided  in  section 34 of chapter 91 of the laws of
    4  2002, as amended.