Bill Text: NY A09741 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school districts to establish a medical hardship waiver policy to grant or deny permission to certain students to use established pick-up and drop-off points on established bus routes.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-25 - reported referred to ways and means [A09741 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09741-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9741
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 5, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to requiring school
          districts to establish a medical hardship waiver policy  to  grant  or
          deny  permission  to  certain  students to use established pick-up and
          drop-off points on established bus routes
          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  3635 of the education law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as follows:
     3    h. (i) The board of education or trustees of each school district  and
     4  the  city  school  district of New York shall develop a medical hardship
     5  waiver policy to grant or deny permission to children  attending  grades
     6  kindergarten  through  eight  who  live within two miles from the school
     7  which they legally attend and for children attending grades nine through
     8  twelve who live within three miles from the school  which  they  legally
     9  attend  to  use  already  established  pick-up and/or drop-off points on
    10  already established bus routes.
    11    (ii) The  medical  hardship  waiver  policy  established  pursuant  to
    12  subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall include:
    13    (1)  a  formal request procedure for a parent or guardian to request a
    14  medical hardship waiver based upon a serious medical condition  suffered
    15  by  the  child,  parent or guardian and the resulting hardship in trans-
    16  porting the child to and/or from school;
    17    (2) a requirement for submission of medical  documentation,  certified
    18  by a physician or other duly authorized health care provider, of a diag-
    19  nosis  of  a serious medical condition with a description of the limita-
    20  tions resulting from such diagnosis and the  approximate  duration  that
    21  such limitations will be suffered by the child, parent or guardian;
    22    (3) a requirement for submission of documentation of the nature of the
    23  hardship including the inability of the child to safely travel to and/or
    24  from  school  without  the  requested  medical hardship waiver or of the
    25  inability of the parent or guardian to safely  transport  the  child  to
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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