Bill Text: NY A06821 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the school bus mandate relief act authorizing school districts, in their discretion, to provide student transportation based upon patterns of actual ridership.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to education [A06821 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06821-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6821--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 31, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SCHIMEL, GUNTHER, M. MILLER, REILLY, MURRAY,
         HAWLEY, SPANO, PAULIN, MAISEL, WEPRIN, WEISENBERG  --  Multi-Sponsored
         by  --  M.  of  A.   BURLING, CROUCH, KATZ, MAGEE, McDONOUGH, McENENY,
         McKEVITT, MILLMAN, MOLINARO, SALADINO, SMARDZ, THIELE -- read once and
         referred to the Committee on Education -- committee  discharged,  bill
         amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
         tee
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  enacting  the  school
         bus mandate relief act
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "school bus
    2  mandate relief act".
    3    S 2. Section 3635 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    4  subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    5    8.    A  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION  MAY, AT ITS DISCRETION, PROVIDE STUDENT
    6  TRANSPORTATION BASED UPON  PATTERNS  OF  ACTUAL  RIDERSHIP.  THE  ACTUAL
    7  RIDERSHIP  SHALL  BE BASED UPON THE HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE THAT YIELDS A
    8  CONSISTENT PATTERN OF ELIGIBLE PUPILS NOT USING DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION;
    9  OR MODELING OF  FUTURE  RIDERSHIP;  OR  THE  SHARING  OF  TRANSPORTATION
   10  REGIONALLY;  OR  OTHER  CRITERIA  DETERMINED BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT
   11  ENSURES THAT ALL STUDENTS IN NEED OF TRANSPORTATION RECEIVE IT.  NOTHING
   12  IN  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  REDUCE  OR  RELIEVE  SCHOOL DISTRICTS FROM THE
   13  RESPONSIBILITY OF PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION TO STUDENTS OTHERWISE  ELIGI-
   14  BLE  AND  ACTUALLY  IN  NEED OF SUCH TRANSPORTATION. ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT
   15  THAT, AT ITS DISCRETION, HAS ELECTED TO PROVIDE  STUDENT  TRANSPORTATION
   16  BASED  UPON  PATTERNS  OF ACTUAL RIDERSHIP SHALL PLACE SUCH PLANS ON THE
   17  SCHOOL DISTRICT'S WEBSITE ON OR BEFORE AUGUST FIFTEENTH  OF  THE  SCHOOL
   18  YEAR IN WHICH THE TRANSPORTATION PLAN WILL BE IMPLEMENTED.
   19    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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