Bill Text: NY S01084 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1084

Introduced

Bill Title: Creates a transportation subsidy to increase access to water safety instruction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01084 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01084-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1084

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to creating a transporta-
          tion subsidy to increase access to water safety instruction

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3641-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3641-c. After school transportation subsidy for private instruction
     4  in water safety. 1. The department shall make  available,  and  eligible
     5  public  schools  in the state shall provide, an optional subsidy to fund
     6  transportation for students to attend a  qualified  swimming  and  water
     7  safety  instruction  course  at a qualified private facility. The quali-
     8  fications of such course and facility shall be defined  by  the  commis-
     9  sioner, in consultation with the department of health, in regulations.
    10    2. Students attending a public school within the state shall be eligi-
    11  ble to enroll into the transportation subsidy provided that:
    12    (a)  within  a city of one million or more, there are no more than ten
    13  qualified facilities providing a qualified course  within  a  radius  of
    14  two-and-one-half miles of such public school; or
    15    (b)  outside a city of one million or more, there are no more than ten
    16  qualified facilities providing a qualified course  within  a  radius  of
    17  five miles of such public school.
    18    3.  All  students in grades kindergarten through twelve at an eligible
    19  public school may opt into the transportation  subsidy  upon  displaying
    20  proof of such student's enrollment in an eligible instruction program at
    21  an eligible facility.
    22    4. The department shall promulgate regulations to determine:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03199-01-5
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     1    (a)  which  forms of transportation may be funded by such subsidy on a
     2  local basis, including but not limited to school buses or public  trans-
     3  it;
     4    (b) on what basis separate transportation for a parent may be eligible
     5  for the subsidy; and
     6    (c)  in what form subsidy allotments are to be distributed to enrolled
     7  students.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    10  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    11  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    12  on or before such effective date.