Bill Text: NY S04271 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of education of the city of New York to provide school bus service for students in grades K - 5, who live one-half mile or more away from school.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04271 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04271-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4271
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 11, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
       AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
         relation  to  requiring the department of education of the city of New
         York to provide school bus service to students in grades  kindergarten
         through five who reside one-half mile or more from school
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision b of section 19-606 of the administrative  code
    2  of  the city of New York, as added by local law number 48 of the city of
    3  New York for the year 2000, is amended to read as follows:
    4    b. 1. THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SHALL PROVIDE SCHOOL BUS SERVICE  TO
    5  ALL  GENERAL  EDUCATION STUDENTS WHO LIVE ONE-HALF MILE OR MORE FROM THE
    6  SCHOOL THEY ATTEND AND WHO ARE ENROLLED IN  A  GRADE  FROM  KINDERGARTEN
    7  THROUGH FIVE, INCLUSIVE.
    8    2.  The [board] DEPARTMENT of education shall prepare and, when neces-
    9  sary, revise two school bus service plans annually to  ensure  that  all
   10  students  eligible to receive school bus service to and from the schools
   11  they legally attend shall be provided with a seat on a school  bus.  One
   12  plan  shall  relate  to  school  bus  service  to be provided during the
   13  session of the school year beginning in September and ending in June and
   14  one plan shall relate to school bus service  to  be  provided  during  a
   15  summer  school  session.  Each plan shall be prepared prior to the first
   16  day of the session of the school year to  which  it  relates  and  shall
   17  include  the following information: (i) the criteria used by the [board]
   18  DEPARTMENT of education to determine whether a student  is  eligible  to
   19  receive  school bus service; (ii) for each school, a summary description
   20  of the school bus routes servicing the school; (iii) for each school bus
   21  route, the number of students eligible to ride on the school bus operat-
   22  ing on the route and the maximum seating capacity of  such  school  bus;
   23  and (iv) any other information the [board] DEPARTMENT of education deems
   24  relevant.  Upon  completion of the plans, they shall be submitted to the
   25  mayor and the speaker of the city council.
   26    S 2. 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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