Bill Text: NY S02069 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that fifty percent of the cost of transportation of students to and from extracurricular activities shall be included in regular aidable transportation; provides that a school district shall only receive fifty percent of the cost of such transportation.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S02069 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02069-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2069
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 21, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- 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 expenses for transpor-
         tation of students to and from extracurricular activities
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  6  and 7 of section 3622-a of the education
    2  law, subdivision 6 as amended by section 47 of part A of chapter  58  of
    3  the  laws  of 2011 and subdivision 7 as added by chapter 422 of the laws
    4  of 2004, are amended and a  new  subdivision  8  is  added  to  read  as
    5  follows:
    6    6.  Transportation  of  pupils  to  and  from  approved  summer school
    7  programs operated by a school district in the two thousand--two thousand
    8  one school year and thereafter, provided, however,  that  if  the  total
    9  statewide   apportionment   attributable   to  allowable  transportation
   10  expenses incurred pursuant to  this  subdivision  exceeds  five  million
   11  dollars  ($5,000,000),  individual  school district allocations shall be
   12  prorated to ensure that the apportionment for such summer transportation
   13  does not exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000),  provided  that  such
   14  prorated  apportionment  computed and payable as of September one of the
   15  school year immediately following the school year for which such aid  is
   16  claimed shall be deemed final and not subject to change; [and]
   17    7.  Transportation  provided  pursuant  to  section thirty-six hundred
   18  thirty-five-b of this article[.]; AND
   19    8. TRANSPORTATION OF PUPILS TO AND FROM SCHOOL SPONSORED  EXTRACURRIC-
   20  ULAR  ACTIVITIES,  PROVIDED  HOWEVER  THAT  A SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL ONLY
   21  RECEIVE FIFTY PERCENT OF THE COST OF SUCH TRANSPORTATION.
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to  school
   23  years beginning on and after July 1, 2016.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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